Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
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The stereoscopic panoramic videos that we're showing on Samsung VR are getting a lot of positive traction. It's exciting when you see creative types - whether from the music, film, or video industries - look at this stuff. The gears are turning in their head almost immediately about how they can use it as a new medium.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
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I'm totally growing up.
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The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.
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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
