Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

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• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Performance

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Way
  • Day
  • Where

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Goals

• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Great
  • School
  • Fun

• You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Believe
  • Human
  • I Believe

• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Period
  • General

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Woman
  • Person
  • Grey

• of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Trying
  • English

• We have hereafter only two roads to choose: one is to embrace the ancient literature and die, the other is to forsake the ancient literature and live.

  

  Lu Xun
  • Live
  • Die
  • Literature

• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Breathe

• I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Cool
  • Worry

• You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

  

  Chris Terrio
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Suffering
  • Vultures
  • Fixers

• I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Son

• What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Challenge

• A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

  

  Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Happiness
  • Stock
  • Palace

• Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

  

  Questlove