Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.Yasiin Bey Black Star
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
Yves Behar -
I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
Taylor Swift -
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl King -
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon -
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith -
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
Vikram Seth -
I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
Rachel Miner -
I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.
Kat Graham -
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
T. J. Perkins
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
Joanne Rowling -
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
Aasif Mandvi -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr. -
I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
Jacob Artist
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
Malin Akerman -
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.
Dana Goldstein -
If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
Yasiin Bey Black Star