Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.
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When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
