Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
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I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
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I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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We need to find ways to communicate with each other.
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Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
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There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.
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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
