Talib Kweli Quotes
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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Are you in my dream too?
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.
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I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
