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 He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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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 -
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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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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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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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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Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.
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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].
