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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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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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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Yelp is - I mean, Yelp's not even good for looking up the restaurant's phone number because, you know, on the site, they just want you to read their reviews and look at their ads. They don't even actually want to give you the information about the restaurant or the menu.
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There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"
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And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
