Talib Kweli Quotes
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We just here to do our job.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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There always have been funny women.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
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Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.
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The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.
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'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
