Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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
  • Like
  • Fighting
  • 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

• 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

• I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

  

  Halsey
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Children
  • Fighting

• There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• Tell me why I feel so bad, honey Fighting left me plenty of money But didn't keep the promise of memory lapses Like a building that's been slated for blasting I'm the proof that nothing is lasting Counting to eleven as it collapses

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Why
  • Bad

• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Fighting

• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Fighting
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fighting
  • Loving
  • Qualities

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• Case officers most fear the US ambassador and his staff, then restrictive headquarters cables, then curious gossipy neighbours in the local community, as potential threats to the operation. Next would come the local police, then the press. Last of all is the KGB.

  

  John Stockwell
  • Fear
  • Community
  • Police

• I think we stick with what we know.

  

  Joe Alwyn

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

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Fighting