Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
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We won’t be moving people, we will be moving the borders. It’s not a transfer.
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The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
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I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
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We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
