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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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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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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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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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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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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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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No man fails who does his best.
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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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I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
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I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
