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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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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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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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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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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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
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My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
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Remember that you have to be happy to make other people happy. Don't get weighed down by duty, guilt, and responsibility all the time.
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
