Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions create your habits. Your habits form your character. Your character determines your destiny.
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No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.
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I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.
