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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Dad
  • Pay
  • Worked

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• 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.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Business
  • Way
  • Write

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Running

• The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

  

  John Clayton
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Study

• Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Style

• Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Business
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Support