Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

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• In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

  

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• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

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• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

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• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

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• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

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• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

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• Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

  

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• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

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• In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.

  

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• I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

  

  Questlove
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