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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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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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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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
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You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.
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We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.
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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.
