Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
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• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
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• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
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  • Mother

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
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  • Healthy

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
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• You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Believe
  • Feet
  • Believe In Yourself

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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  • Red

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

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  • Cool
  • Like
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• I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

  

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  • Time
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• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

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• I stand behind everything I've done.

  

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• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

  

  Plato
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• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

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• Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

  

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  • Up
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• I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.

  

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