Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I won't join another band again.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
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This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing audience laughter and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.
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Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
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In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.
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Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
