Talib Kweli Quotes

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• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Game
  • Son

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Political
  • Step

• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Important
  • Philosophy
  • Issues

• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Future
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • People
  • Want
  • End

• Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Fear
  • Understanding
  • Courage

• It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Hero
  • Playing
  • Thrill

• Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Breakup

• If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

  

  Athenaeus
  • Storm

• There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Control

• We've already learned a lot about the production process, and we can't wait for our audience to see what we have in store next.

  

  Kian Lawley

• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

  

  James Franco
  • Time
  • Writing

• Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • World
  • Trying
  • Hate

• I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Believe
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Feeling

• In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard

  

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