Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

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• Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Different
  • Long
  • Prayer

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Car
  • Days
  • Nose

• Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Future
  • inspirational
  • Hindsight

• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Vote

• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Gift
  • Meditation
  • Unknown

• I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Done
  • Feels

• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Enough

• I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Road
  • Criticism

• We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Comedy

• In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Practice

• For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Tragedies

• It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Career
  • Decisions
  • Result

• The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Great
  • Firsts

• I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Persons

• I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

  

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