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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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
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There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.
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I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
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It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.
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I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.
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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.
