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.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• 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.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Humor

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• 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.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Action
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Blue

• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Real
  • Brain

• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • History
  • Faith
  • Religious

• There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• If you shift your perspective and stop expecting your relationship is supposed to MAKE you happy, you stop giving your power to someone else. You'll stop feeling entitled that it's someone's responsibility to make you feel good.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Character
  • Hip Hop