Mos Def Quotes

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

Mos Def

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SpacePeopleYouNowSoloGuy

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

John Burns

GoodActionBetterRealSolaceThan

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Johann Lamont

EducationPassionChildrenSchool

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

Jerome Charyn

HumbleI AmVoiceConfidentEnough

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

Matt Czuchry

ScienceHistoryTogetherCollegeMe

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Ronnie Spector

DayIdentityBackOwnLikeDid

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Ry Cooder

FearIgnoranceHatePeopleYouKnow

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

TreeLegendLonelyStrangeOwn

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

DeWitt Clinton

WillVeilConfessionPriestSinner

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

Dean Koontz

ChaosEmbraceTossedTempest

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

Bonnie Wright

YourselfThinkYouSometimesWant

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

FailureEnoughSecurityAggressive

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Brad Pitt

WorkLoveDramaColourFilmWould

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