Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
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Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
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Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
