Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
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I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.
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We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
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Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
