Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.
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There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
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I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
