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Mos Def Quotes

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 11, 1973

Topics

Change You Quiet Complain Keep Got

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

Game Play Go Say Hard Ability

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adversity Overcoming Fresh Activity

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

Great Travel Youth Moving Think Out

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.

Business Time Curious Me Curiosity

Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

Globalisation Means

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

Jordana Brewster

School End Sneakers Jeans Wear Pair

To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.

Good Doing You Know Trends Need

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

Character Challenge Me You Acting

I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.

Walk Me Door Cry Say Office

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Money Yourself Writing Think Enough

It's impossible for five people to have the exact same ambitions all around.

People Impossible Same Five Around

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

Think Kind Hip-Hop Timeless Rolling

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