Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
Quotes to Explore
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn't feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn't understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.
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The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.
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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
