Talib Kweli Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.
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What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
