Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
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Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
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In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.
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I agree with them. What the heck is going on with gas?
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I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.
