Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Almost

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Know
  • Down
  • Gravity

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
  • Ideas

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • People
  • Passion
  • Financial

• I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • People
  • Strong
  • Path

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Work
  • Different
  • Nature

• The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Moments