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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I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.
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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
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Love is blind, you just see bright light
