Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher -
Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
Camille Paglia -
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
Sadie Jones -
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
Vanessa Paradis -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
Faye Marsay -
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo -
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
R. L. Stine -
The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
Raghuram Rajan -
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
Olivia Williams
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
Fisher Stevens -
p. 63
Irving Babbitt -
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
Bill Pullman -
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
Bo Jackson -
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
Keenen Ivory Wayans -
Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
Victoria Jackson
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The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
Billy Williams -
We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
Douglas Leone -
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
Alisher Usmanov -
I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.
Mark Billingham -
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
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