Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.
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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
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We have not had any disagreements about clothes, smoking or L'Wren, and this is all very hurtful for her... It is completely untrue to say that L'Wren has caused a rift between myself and the rest of the band. This is all nonsense, everyone has their own style.
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There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
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Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'
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If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.
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Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.
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I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.
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Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
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Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
