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'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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Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.
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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.
