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

• 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

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Food

• If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

  

  Angela Rye
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Failure
  • Facts
  • Deals

• History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • Nature
  • Law

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

  

  Questlove