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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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the band... it's just about being IN the band, if that makes sense? We're trying to keep it in a pure and genuine place for us and not break it down to gender, because it's just a bit boring and obvious isn't it?
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We have to take our possessions and flee. I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.
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He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.
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I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
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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.
