Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

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• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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  • Life
  • Worry

• There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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  • Up
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• I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
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• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
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• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
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• Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.

  

  Wale
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  • Life
  • Happy

• My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Time
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• I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • People
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• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Communication

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Myself
  • Saying

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
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• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

  

  Dan Pink
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• I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
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• Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress terrorist groups and warlords both. When the U.S. creates such local forces, it must be persistent. If it withdraws from these efforts, as America did in Iraq in 2011, it invites mayhem.

  

  David Ignatius
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• The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Hand
  • Cutting
  • Down

• I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  

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