Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

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• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Insecure

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Business
  • Rock
  • Star

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Never
  • Broken
  • Clothes

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Baseball

• I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Man
  • Hotel
  • Heartbreak

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Film
  • Dancing
  • Then

• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Why
  • Generation

• I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Lonely

• If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • People
  • Writing

• You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

  

  Piper Perabo
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Forever

• In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • America
  • Action

• Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • World
  • Different
  • Together