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.Questlove
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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.
Beau Willimon -
I know every politician spins the truth a little.
Zach Braff -
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.
Dakota Fanning -
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.
Oliver North -
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.
Kaskade -
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett
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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.
Nancy Kress -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Halsey -
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.
Pankaj Patel -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
Flula Borg -
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde -
The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt
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Each day, I choose my age.
Blake Lively -
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Patch Adams -
I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution.
Piyush Goyal -
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.
Andre Aciman -
Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Questlove