Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
G. M. Trevelyan
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I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
T. S. Eliot
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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
W. W. Rouse Ball
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I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
Nalini Singh
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"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
Pablo Picasso
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When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.
Barack Obama
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Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.
Jason Mraz
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Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
Elayne Boosler
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This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin’s power over me has been broken, in Jesus’ name!
T. B. Joshua
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They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ!
T. B. Joshua
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
Pat Quinn
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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
Harvey Cushing
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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.
Seth Godin
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I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
Yasiin Bey
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