Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

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• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Interesting
  • Famous
  • Fame

• I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Eye
  • Fame

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Day
  • Fame
  • Touch

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Desire
  • Fame
  • Away

• In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Journalism

• Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Fame

• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Famous
  • More
  • Fame

• I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Go

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• Fame creeps up on you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • You
  • Fame

• Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Achievement
  • Fame

• I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Would
  • Streets
  • Riots

• If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Literature
  • Movies
  • Fame

• I just open my mouth and out it comes.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Open
  • Mouth
  • Comes

• It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Never
  • Lived
  • Regrets

• Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Investing
  • Bench
  • Cryptography

• I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

  

  Robert Winston
  • Boring
  • Explosions
  • Monologue

• Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Fame
  • Streets
  • Destination