Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
