Talib Kweli Quotes

Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way

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• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Science

• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • World
  • Day
  • Better

• You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • True
  • You
  • Movies

• I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Myself

• The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Food
  • Just

• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Bad
  • Community

• Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Worst

• Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Face

• People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• 'Aye. Like knows like, sister'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sister

• The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• Money is itself a product of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Who does not know the restlessness of an anticipated arrival ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wise

• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • History

• One example of an upcoming need for downmass - the ability to transport material from space to the Earth - is space manufacturing.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Earth
  • Space

• And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

  

  Mike Lowry
  • Democracy
  • Needs
  • Ourselves

• Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Live
  • Remember

• I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  

  George A. Sheehan
  • May
  • Power
  • Addiction

• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Action

• Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way

  

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