Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
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But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
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Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.
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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
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The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.
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We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey.
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No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.
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I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
