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Talib Kweli Quotes

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

Talib Kweli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Job People Place Compliment

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Art School Child High School Special

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

Death Dating Mom Teachers She Years

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

Business Science Thought Always Some

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

John Lasseter

Great Together Me Years Only Been

During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Dallek

Family Election Group Paid Sons

I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

Rivers Cuomo

Think I Can Want Everything Being

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Luis Fortuno

Country Principles Same Taxes Turn

My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

Jason Day

Sister Trouble Know Living She Four

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Jason Silva

People Me Ideas Kind Always Tell

I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

Jonathan Anderson

Work Love Moment I Am Sick Process

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

Dominique McElligott

Character Fun Writing Story Actor

We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very venerable place to perform. I'd never heard of anyone going into the Hall and kind of standing on the seats and playing throughout the aisles and having the audience stand on the seats. So when we did that in 2013, even for me it was a shock.

Jon Batiste

Time Me Stand Place Kind Never