Talib Kweli Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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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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I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
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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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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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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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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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You need a lot of money to become president.
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When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
