Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
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They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
