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.
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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.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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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.
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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.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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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.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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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.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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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.
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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.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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?
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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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.
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Le agghiacciò il sangue e impallidille il volto.
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Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
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I am what I am, everything I wanna be
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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.
