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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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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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 think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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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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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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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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The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.
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One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.
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When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.
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The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
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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.
