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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
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People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to go against the grain. But I took it too far.
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The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.
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Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
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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.
