Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
Cameron Dallas -
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
Aaron Patzer -
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Harrison Salisbury -
When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
Sam Smith -
It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
Randeep Hooda -
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
Felix Frankfurter
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The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
B. D. Wong -
There are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority … The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity.
Karl Popper -
What are the next steps in the war against terrorism? And beyond immediate next steps, what is the longer-range plan of action? And finally, what should be done to deal with root causes of this threat?
Al Gore -
I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.
Luke Combs -
For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.
Chris O'Dowd -
The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
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As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Marty Meehan -
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson -
I lead by example. Everybody sees it.
Jason Pierre-Paul -
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
James Thomson -
The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.
Keke Palmer -
When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.
Kevin Whately
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Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alison Sweeney -
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
Dag Hammarskjold -
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams -
When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
Kurt Busiek -
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Yasiin Bey Black Star