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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
-
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.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
-
I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
-
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
-
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
-
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
-
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.
-
What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
-
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
-
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.
-
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
-
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
-
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
-
I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
-
There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.
-
'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
-
Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.
-
I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.
-
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
-
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
