Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I was a horrible student.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
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Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
