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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 People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot...
TALIB KWELI You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
ROBERT PLANT So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being...
TALIB KWELI I am trying to ask them to ask the deeper questions in life. The one major theme is sacrifice. They ...
G. KWAME SCRUGGS You have to ask the right questions.
LINDA GOLDBERG 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 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 My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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 We've decided to have an open forum after the movie. To make comments and ask questions.
ERIC WOODS Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
SCOTT WESTERFELD To get answers of life, ask questions
SUKANT RATNAKAR Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive move...
RYAN PHILLIPPE You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
SAMANTHA BEE It gives them hands-on experience about what they're studying and a chance to ask questions of peopl...
DEBBIE DAVIS Once you have learned to ask questions, relevant and appropriate and substantial questions, you have...
NEIL PORTMAN Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you want the right answers you have to ask the right questions.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with ...
APRIL SINCLAIR I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really...
MORRIS CHESTNUT Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work w...
JILL SCOTT The smart guys listen, they ask questions and listen to what you have to say. They value experience....
GRANT WASHBURN Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're ...
DAVID PACKARD If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
BO BENNETT Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Commu...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, th...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, th...
ANTHONY ROBBINS The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many que...
GURJEET SINGH Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ...
STAR TREK If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. C...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Only ask questions that you want answers to.
JAMES YAGER Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes,...
DAVID PACKARD Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
CRISS JAMI We try to supplement what the parents teach at home and give them a different source from the busine...
CHERYL BENNETT The secret to getting answers in life is learning to ask the right questions
JANINE LATTIMORE Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. Yo...
GARY COHN Their extreme request for relief invites questions on how they came to the observations and conclusi...
WILLIAM NEUKOM If you ask too many questions, you will find no answers, only more questions.
MONICA FAIRVIEW I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It...
MAY-BRITT MOSER I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.
BILL KURTIS You need to know how to ask the right questions.
DAVID ARMSTRONG If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answ...
COURTNEY LOVE When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or n...
ROBERT JORDAN Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.
J.K. ROWLING You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING I like photographers you don't ask questions.
RONALD REAGAN When you give feedback, make sure to give some examples. You listen well: I know that because you as...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.
LAURIE ZOLOTH Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mist...
JAY ROCKEFELLER Be careful what you ask for. Answers responds to questions
SOTONYE ANGA All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a ...
HENRI MATISSE People ask you questions so you can reveal to them God’s intention
SUNDAY ADELAJA The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS They're going to ask those questions.
STEVE MARTIN Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on a...
MORLEY SAFER You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same ...
JAY ROCKEFELLER We want to meet with him. We have questions to ask him.
CELESTE ZAPPALA When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what hav...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You need to ask the right questions, you need to make sure and get references from them, for local p...
DAVID MONK Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themsel...
RAINER MARIA RILKE My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds o...
BILAL TANWEER To become a better you, keep asking curious questions about yourself. If you lose, ask “why?”; i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Ask yourself three questions [...] and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What ...
PAULLINA SIMONS What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
An offer you can't understand.
QUESTIONS If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smar...
SCOTT ADAMS The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER Hopefully, we'll be able to make a decision after the whole board has a chance to ask them questions...
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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...
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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 My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
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.
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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
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