Mos Def Quotes

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Mos Def

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MusicFeelPersonNobodyWayTry

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

John Baldacci

OpportunitiesSecurityKindEmbrace

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

HeartCourageLosingEarthDefeat

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

Soccer Mommy

WomenMusicBetterWantListenBeen

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

MarriageMyselfGovernmentHusband

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.

Mickey Rooney

BadGetMadeFewWereYeah

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Michel Foucault

TechnologyPowerDisciplinePhysics

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

Janos Kadar

PowerAngerPeopleSpeakCountry

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Donny Robinson

YouKnowKindBigGuyBig Guy

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

Bob Seger

TimePeopleSayingThoughtGiving

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

Anthony Doerr

TimeNeverMakeRibsTexts

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

LearnYouSeeAvoidShouldCalamity

Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.

Tyler Farr

LookPartyPlayAudienceShowHost

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