Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.Yasiin Bey Black Star
Quotes to Explore
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
Taron Egerton -
My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
La India -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra -
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai -
I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
Sam Hunt
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde -
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
Halle Berry -
We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
Taron Egerton -
A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
Naval Ravikant
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons -
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith -
I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
Bassem Youssef -
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
Uta Hagen -
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer -
Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.
Tamron Hall
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I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.
Sia LSD -
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde -
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
Kary Mullis -
The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.
Marshall McLuhan -
The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation.
Peter Scolari -
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
Yasiin Bey Black Star