Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
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It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
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In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
