Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.
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I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
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The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - And yet my days go on, go on.
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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
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I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.
