Talib Kweli Quotes
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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.
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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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.
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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.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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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.'
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'Aye. Like knows like, sister'
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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?
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Money is itself a product of circulation.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Who does not know the restlessness of an anticipated arrival ?
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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One example of an upcoming need for downmass - the ability to transport material from space to the Earth - is space manufacturing.
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Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.
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My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.
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It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
