Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I was an expert horseman.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
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I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.
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Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
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It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
