Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
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I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.
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The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.