Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
Barry Pepper -
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
Adam Hicks -
We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Malcolm X -
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy -
When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
J. B. Pritzker
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Yann Martel -
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama -
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.
Damien Chazelle -
I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
Patrick Whitesell -
I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
R. Kelly -
It should not be the government running the economy.
Quico Canseco
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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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
Maira Kalman -
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
Laura Dern -
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
Daniel Barenboim -
Aint nothin you can tell her Yeah she get the mozarella
Nicki Minaj -
This fight figures to be crunk
Larry Merchant
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
Taylor Sheridan -
I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Walter Kirn -
Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
Yasiin Bey Black Star