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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Artist
  • Use
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• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Like
  • Person
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Experience
  • Magic
  • Movies

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
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• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Help
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Play
  • Day

• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Used
  • Impression
  • Brown

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• 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.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Attention

• There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Life
  • Home
  • Control

• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Words
  • Learning
  • Listening

• Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

  

  Matthew Modine
  • People
  • True
  • Humanity

• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Time
  • Giving