Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .
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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
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The biggest fear you face, as an actor, is whether people are going to like you. When you learn to let go of that fear, you can go so much deeper into the role and really take much bigger risks 'cause you're not worried about trivial things like that.
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Nobody's safe, humor wise.
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If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
