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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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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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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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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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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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
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The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
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The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
