Talib Kweli Quotes

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

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• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mind
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• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
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• Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
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• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
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• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
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• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
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• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
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• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
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• I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  

  Mignon McLaughlin
  • Marriage
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• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Artist
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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods - even extended ones - of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  

  Alexi Murdoch
  • Creative
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• Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Creative
  • Loss