Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
Carlton Cuse
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Joanne Rowling
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
Damien Rice
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
Adam Mansbach
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I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
Karen Morley
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She loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.
Elizabeth Noble
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They always give you the things that could happen, the risks you take. At the same time, I'm aware of that and I don't really care. I just want to play football and help us win.
Champ Bailey
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I'm drowning my brother drowning.
Eva Paterson
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star