Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Taye Diggs -
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence -
A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
Ted Cruz -
Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
Pat Paulsen
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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
Nancy Kress -
As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi -
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
Damien Chazelle -
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith -
Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
Edmund Phelps -
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Bear Grylls
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
Edward Heath -
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
Douglas Brinkley -
You have to have a short memory as a closer.
Frank Robinson -
Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
Clementa C. Pinckney -
My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
Bill Goldberg -
I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.
Emory Cohen
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He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.
Elijah Wood -
Good style, to me, is unseen style.
Sidney Lumet -
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson -
It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.
Pete Burns -
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Jacky Ickx -
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
Yasiin Bey Black Star