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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
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Philadelphia
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?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
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I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
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I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.
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Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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