Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
