Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
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I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
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Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
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When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
