Mos Def Quotes

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

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PositiveArtPurposeJoyHealing

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Andy Serkis

GoodLiveCharacterDayMeAction

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

Roger Taylor

YourselfPictureYouSeeingSeeEra

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

Mike Binder

PeopleTryingYouBackKnowKind

People transform in some ways, and they remain exactly the same in others. Often, the thing you'd like to change the most about yourself is where you will forever remain stuck.

Lisa Lutz

ChangeYourselfPeopleYouWill

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Bryan Callen

CelebrateMasculinityOnstage

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Bryant H. McGill

ProgressHealingSeeingPersonEvery

For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries.

Brian O'Driscoll

LifeMeProfessionalismInjuriesNow

Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

Peter Carey

WorldLensAustraliaWaySeeCannot

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

Richard Stallman

WorkJobPracticeBetterBadSystem

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

Noreena Hertz

WorldStartBelieveHelpYouAsk

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Ric Keller

GovernmentArgumentYearsGoneUs

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

GoodConfidencePurposeIdentity

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