Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Community
  • Best

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Ugly

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Once

• I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fighting
  • Like
  • Fighter

• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  

  Ted Turner
  • War
  • Want
  • Fighting

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Choices

• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Law

• If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Question
  • Fighting

• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• I'm not fighting with myself.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

  

  Bonnie Canino
  • Fighting
  • Honest
  • Belts

• I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Model

• Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Government
  • Percent

• Spend all your time waitingFor that second chance,For a break that would make it OK.There's always some reasonTo feel not good enough;And it's hard at the end of the day.I need some distraction,Oh, beautiful release.Memory seeps through my veins.Let me be empty,Oh weightless and maybeI'll find some peace tonight.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Manipulation

• To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Fighting