Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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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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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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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
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...yes, because back in my day, Abraham Lincoln was president and sex was just being invented. A sarcastic response to a guest in an episode seen circa 2009
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run ... I have been consistently vague on all the issues ... Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
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When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.
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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
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Live now for the promise of the Infinite
