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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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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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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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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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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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he's very unflinching about it. He knows that it's correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate.
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Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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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.
