Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
