Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I'm just not very funny.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.
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You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
