Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
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I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
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This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
