Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I'm always forming bands.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."