Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Know

• With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Dance
  • Theatre

• But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Famous
  • Move
  • Circles

• He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Prejudices

• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Today

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• 'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Mad

• A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Game
  • Hours

• In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Case
  • Closer
  • Dozen

• The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Age
  • Day

• The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Real
  • Books
  • Harlem

• Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Nature
  • Water

• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

  

  George Clooney
  • Kids
  • Fine
  • Pediatrician

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Gay

• But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Deserve
  • Decent
  • Halfway