Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon my love for you is forever yoko ono October 9th 2007
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I feel like when people meet me, I'm very much not what they expected I would be. I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.
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Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.
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Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
