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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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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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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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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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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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
