Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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Everybody's a nun.
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Off to Azerbaijan!
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Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.
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I'm a real woman with a real heart and I have to live with a beautiful body and a pretty face which is not nearly as easy as it sounds.
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No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.
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When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
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When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
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The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.
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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
