Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Law
  • Husband

• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • World
  • Rest

• Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Today
  • Fear
  • New

• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Brother

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Me
  • English

• I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Today
  • Star
  • Wall

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Lead

• The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Real
  • Unexpected

• Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Past

• Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Never
  • Boy
  • See

• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

  

  Dmitry Medvedev
  • Daily

• The mother has to have enough food in order to produce enough milk in order to breast feed, but she has to know that she should breast feed. That's an education issue.

  

  Catherine Bertini
  • Mother
  • Enough
  • Issues

• Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
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