Talib Kweli Quotes
Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.
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Livejournal comment
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I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
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Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
