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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Think
  • Doing

• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
  • Thought
  • Trouble
  • Radio

• In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Career
  • Possible
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Television
  • Radio
  • Leave

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Model

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Help
  • Energy

• I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Awesome
  • Radio
  • Platform

• Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Needs
  • Dog
  • Lap

• 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.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Up
  • Done
  • Adventure

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Television
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movies
  • Internet
  • Radio

• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

  Randy West
  • Career
  • Me
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Lorde
  • Important
  • High
  • Cool

• Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Persons

• I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Needs
  • Materialistic
  • Epiphany

• 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.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Good
  • Business
  • Game

• We need to find ways to communicate with each other.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Way
  • Needs
  • Communicate

• Every man needs a place to go to.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Needs
  • Place

• We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Work
  • Needs
  • Prayed

• Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don’t we give them a call?

  

  Caprice Crane
  • Together
  • Reason
  • Needs

• And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • May
  • Hope
  • Fear

• My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

  

  Adria Petty
  • Artist
  • Talking
  • Making

• If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Needs
  • Radio