Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.
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I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
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I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
