Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
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On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.
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Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.
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That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything...
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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
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Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
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When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
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I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?
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Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.
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Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
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A copy of Skeptic magazine ostentatiously tucked under his arm, the Darwin fish on the bumper of his car proudly signals his group identification with other members of the herd of “independent thinkers.” He “knows” that there is no God, and he isn’t sure whether even the thoughts he thinks he’s having are real or not. But he is pretty sure that his “selfish genes” and/or his “memes” in some way manipulate his every action, and quite certain that there’s nothing questionable per se about “marrying” another man, strangling an unwanted disabled infant, or sodomizing a goat or a corpse (if that’s “what you’re into”). Despite his hatred of religion, he thinks global warming a greater danger than Islamic terrorism, and whether “meat is murder” is a proposition he thinks eminently worthy of consideration.
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
