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.
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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.'
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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.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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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.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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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.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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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.
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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.
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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.
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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.
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I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.
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I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
