Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

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• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

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• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  

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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

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• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

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• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

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• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

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• I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.

  

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• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
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• In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

  

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• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

  

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• I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.

  

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• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  

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• I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

  

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• Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

  

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• People take in their car for servicing and checkups every few months without complaint. Why shouldn’t they take similar care of their bodies?

  

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• Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.

  

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• They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

  

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• A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.

  

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• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

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• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Care
  • Fame
  • Ridiculous