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.
Nancy Sinatra
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
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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.
Harlan Coben
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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.'
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Parker Posey
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.
Elizabeth Bear
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
Plato
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One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.
Mel Odom
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
Lord Byron
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Patricia Schroeder
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Yasiin Bey
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