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Talib Kweli Quotes

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1975

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Father Music Grateful New York DJ

We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.

Family Father Best Enough White Up

Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.

Potential Plan Important Africa West

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Work Focus Artist Involved Going

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Maxwell Anderson

Heart Art Practice Proud You Person

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

Great Time Man Walking Brooklyn Say

When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep.

Work Day Sleep Night American First

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

Shadow World Vanity Play Nothing

I'm a lot of work.

Lisa Marie Presley

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

Doing Trying Dream Want Become How

There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

People Doing Hill Sobriety Own Set

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Live Fighting Fish Egg You Know

In my wide travels across the world and my meetings with various heads of states, be that Africa or South Asia, Singapore or in high level meetings in the U.S., U.K. or Japan, one common mention is about Dr. Singh's extraordinary reputation as a Wise Man, an outstanding Economist and a fine Gentleman.

Man Wise World Gentleman Wise Man

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