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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Instead of following through on their promise to concentrate on jobs, Republicans have attacked seniors, working families, women, and the most vulnerable among us. They have pursued an extreme agenda that would end Medicare as we know it and cut Social Security benefits in order to continue giving tax breaks to Big Oil and millionaires.
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Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.
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Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
