Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

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• When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Rain

• 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.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• Sometimes words are harder than blows.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Words
  • Sometimes
  • Blows

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Flag
  • Sail

• I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Acting

• Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mind
  • American
  • Chance

• The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Face

• As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Team

• If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Risk
  • Run

• In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Love
  • Society
  • Hate

• Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Free
  • Language
  • Speak

• I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Physics
  • Collection
  • Discomfort

• You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Space
  • Devil
  • Quantum

• Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Up
  • True
  • Present

• One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Ball
  • Effective

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • People
  • World
  • Action

• Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.

  

  Chris Adler Blotted Science
  • Fun
  • Worry

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• The steak ain't right without the A-1

  

  Andre Louis Hicks
  • Hip Hop
  • Sauce
  • Steak

• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Hip Hop