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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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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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.
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Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.
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In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.
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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.
