Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.Questlove
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
Joanne Rowling -
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
Gary Frank -
People believe what they want to believe.
Tab Hunter -
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
Tamra Davis -
I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
Earl Butz
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
Sally Ride -
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
Barry McGuigan -
The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
Ma Jian -
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius -
I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
Verne Troyer -
Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
Carly Fiorina -
What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
La'Porsha Renae
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz -
Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.
Mary Pipher -
Life is very marvelous … and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
James Branch Cabell -
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.
Nathaniel Rich -
I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.
Questlove