Talib Kweli Quotes

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Brunette

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Time
  • Love
  • Girl

• Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • May
  • Today
  • Action

• Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Me

• Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Mean
  • Scary

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Help
  • Night
  • Star

• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Control
  • Using
  • Railways

• I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Art
  • House
  • Lost

• When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gold
  • Smile