Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.
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Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
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Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
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The way I feel is I have to keep going out there and proving people. I don't want to be just a guy who has a couple of good years and then that's it.
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It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply from the malevolence of others in the struggle for place or portion, but also from the fact that men of the best will in the world seem to suffer incurably, so far as one can tell, from what William Jame called "a certain blindness" in perceiving the vitalities of others.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
