Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

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• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Time
  • World
  • Single

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Me

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• Jc and I love our YouTube audience, and we're going to keep producing videos, but we're also really interested in learning what other opportunities are out there.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Learning

• I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Christian

• I've always been athletic and fast.

  

  Jimmy Graham

• On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.

  

  Arturo O'Farrill
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Work
  • Great

• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  

  Walker Percy
  • World
  • Together
  • Broken

• Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Women
  • Trying
  • College

• And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Up
  • Different
  • Aesthetic

• I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

  

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  • People
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