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I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
MOS DEF I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
TALIB KWELI Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
SCOTT SHEDDAN Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh...
MOS DEF People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot...
TALIB KWELI A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.
CLARE WHITING I think that speaks volumes to what this jury should do.
GEORGE PARNHAM That speaks volumes for her ability level.
LORI SNELL African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to coll...
MOS DEF What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective end...
MOS DEF Reckless capitalism kills black people.
MOS DEF Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're e...
MOS DEF I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that...
MOS DEF Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like wi...
MOS DEF I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...
MOS DEF That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It sho...
MOS DEF Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
MOS DEF If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
MOS DEF I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth...
MOS DEF I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic....
MOS DEF You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a...
MOS DEF I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by...
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught...
MOS DEF I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
MOS DEF With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and...
MOS DEF To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as...
MOS DEF I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
MOS DEF You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
MOS DEF I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion...
MOS DEF You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
MOS DEF It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a ...
MOS DEF I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
MOS DEF And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
MOS DEF To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.
BRANDON FERGUSON This speaks volumes about Tyson's approach to bargaining,
GIL MCGOWAN That just speaks volumes of how deep of a team we are. On any other team, a lot of these guys all wo...
BRIAN BRANDTNER The service really took off with very minimal marketing to passengers - word of mouth spread quickly...
COLLEEN KONSTANZER When a man scores 81 points in a regulation game, that speaks volumes.
AL ATTLES Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive move...
RYAN PHILLIPPE Giving someone the silent treatment speaks volumes about your character
RALPH DOWNEY III That people can be threatened by a fictional character speaks volumes about them.
GREG RUCKA Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being...
TALIB KWELI It was a glaring omission. It speaks volumes about what they think about their case.
JERRY BERNSTEIN President Trumps election speaks volumes about the blatant failures of the Obama administration.
STEVEN MAGEE Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work w...
JILL SCOTT With winning a significant award, it speaks volumes about the team. There's a lot more to accomplish...
ANITA LUNDY I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but to be able to go up there and watch six other teams play ...
ANTHONY BOZZELLA Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ...
STAR TREK She is that committed to the team and the conference, which speaks volumes of her.
BRIAN WILLIAMS It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.
DASHANNE STOKES I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democ...
DEAN BARKLEY The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the ki...
AARON LEE I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really...
MORRIS CHESTNUT That speaks volumes. People were like 'Wait a minute, why can't I smoke?' Even the non-smokers are w...
CATHY BURKE It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote"
STEVEN WRIGHT We gave them way too many second chances and we were careless with the ball. That speaks volumes.
MIKE PARDON It speaks volumes of their character. When I called, it would have been easy for them to write a che...
DRAKE NUNN I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/hers...
PEPRAH BOASIAKO The fact that we're having this discussion speaks volumes. There have been all kinds of racial slurs...
DWAYNE MCDUFFIE Before he could even say a word, I said, 'You found my wallet,' ... How it got where (it was found) ...
ROBERT GIBSON We were into October before we could say the Open didn't have some lingering presence.
DON PADGETT II That was really a play, for the ball to be put right there on the sideline. That speaks volumes abou...
JUSTIN GAGE I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
SAFFRON BURROWS A word gets its meaning by the person who speaks it.
UNKNOWN Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I just think it says a lot for our community and our girls' athletic program (to reach state a sixth...
FRED GRIFFIN Bill Greiner is very deserving of this recognition. This award speaks volumes to the expertise that ...
MARINER KEMPER As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG They say a picture speaks a thousand words? This one speaks 2,000 words to me.
GEROLD DOMPIG When the Final Word speaks even the deafs hear
AYODAPO OYELANA My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do...
FRANZ KAFKA Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back; / Haply I may ...
QURAN Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as...
SOURCE UNKNOWN A tremendous amount of credit has to go to the kids. You take a look at the schedule because the sch...
DUB HUCKABEE Def Comedy Jam.
MARTIN LAWRENCE breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
DAVID LEVITHAN MOS RELATIONSHIPS FAIL DUE TO THEIR COMMENT.
BETA METANI' MARASHI The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
CONFUCIUS [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
CONFUCIUS It speaks volumes about where we are. For someone with as much knowledge on politics as Dick Morris ...
DEBRA WALSH All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the compu...
MARK KENNEDY This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . ...
PETER YESAWICH Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless.
NEIL DIAMOND When you've got a nation fighting a war and ... the one place in the mainstream media that seems to ...
ROBERT THOMPSON And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
KHALED HOSSEINI We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using man...
ORIGEN The growing list of our prominent financial services and government customers speaks volumes about t...
BRIAN BOXMAN Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softne...
LOREN WEISMAN Cut off's are like real sadist as they watch some folks happy and disappoint the majority. People dr...
PARUL WADHWA The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
MICHEL EYQUEM Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil:...
BIBLE It's a gift, I guess, is the best way to say it. He's put up with my presence, and I just like being...
PAUL ANDERSON Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL

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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to coll...
MOS DEF What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective end...
MOS DEF Reckless capitalism kills black people.
MOS DEF Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're e...
MOS DEF I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that...
MOS DEF Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like wi...
MOS DEF I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...
MOS DEF That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It sho...
MOS DEF Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
MOS DEF If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
MOS DEF I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth...
MOS DEF I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic....
MOS DEF You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a...
MOS DEF I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by...
MOS DEF I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh...
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught...
MOS DEF I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
MOS DEF With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and...
MOS DEF To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as...
MOS DEF I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
MOS DEF You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
MOS DEF I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion...
MOS DEF You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
MOS DEF It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a ...
MOS DEF I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
MOS DEF And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
MOS DEF Pour Some Sugar on Me,
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DEF LEPPARD It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and...
DEF LEPPARD We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop,
DEF LEPPARD ya better come inside
when you're ready to
but no chance if ya don't wanna dance
you...
DEF LEPPARD