Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.
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I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
