Talib Kweli Quotes

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

Talib Kweli

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Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

Jimmy Swaggart

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Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.

Andrew Young

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I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

Tony Judt

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I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Tom Hayden

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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Ron Paul

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Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off of my dad so he can just relax.

Romeo Miller

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I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Julia Gillard

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The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Joyce Meyer

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I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'

Jason Fried

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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

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I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

Jonathan Anderson

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I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Douglas Preston

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