Quotes About Discovery

Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

I didn't know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always present, waiting for us to tune in.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their own discoveries.

I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my mom got me a TV in my room, and I remember seeing Biggie's 'Give Me One More Chance,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is how a house party looks!' I really, really fell in love with it when Tupac created 'Dear Mama.'

I've noticed something happens when you take the masters of the universe outside of their home turf. They breathe.

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

When I was at Duke, I finally had an avocado - accidentally - on a turkey sandwich. I was hooked. Next thing I know, I couldn't get enough guacamole.

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.