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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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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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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The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.
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I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
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As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
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I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
