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 know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Courage

• 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

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• 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

• Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Music

• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • Work

• 'Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is already beginning, and all these super humans are just showing up, and here's Aquaman. The perception is, 'What's next? Now we've got a guy talking to fish. What can be next?'

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Past

• When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Passion

• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Same
  • Youth

• 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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