Platonique Def Quotes

#1. I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that. #Quote by Morris Chestnut

#2. I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice. #Quote by Mos Def

#3. I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions. #Quote by Mos Def

#4. Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court]. #Quote by Mos Def

#5. Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation. #Quote by Mos Def

#6. I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world. #Quote by Rick Rubin

#7. I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle #Quote by Mos Def

#8. Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. #Quote by Mos Def

#9. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. #Quote by Mos Def

#10. They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is. #Quote by Mos Def

#11. I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life. #Quote by Mos Def

#12. Ten Best Song to Strip
1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly.

2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars.

3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clumsiest troglodyte strut like Anita Pallenberg. (However, the Troggs will make you look like even more of a troglodyte, so avoid if possible.)

4. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard. The Lep's shouted choruses and relentless programmed drums prove ideal for chicks who can really stomp. (Coincidence: I once saw a stripper who, like Rick Allen, had only one arm.)

5. "Amber" by 311. This fluid stoner anthem is a favorite of midnight tokers at strip joints everywhere. Mellow enough that even the most shitfaced dancer can make it through the song and back to her Graffix bong without breaking a sweat. Pass the Fritos Scoops, dude.

6. "Miserable" by Lit, but mostly because Pamela Anderson is in the video, and she's like Jesus for strippers (blonde, plastic, capable of parlaying a broken nail into a domestic battery charge, damaged liver). Alos, you can't go wrong stripping to a song that opens with the line "You make me come."

7. "Back Door Man" by The Doors. Almost too eas #Quote by Diablo Cody

#13. But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more. #Quote by Rick Allen

#14. Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. #Quote by Mos Def

#15. If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio. #Quote by Mos Def

#16. I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses. #Quote by Pierce Brosnan

#17. Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead. #Quote by Charlie Brooker

#18. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory. #Quote by Mos Def

#19. I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. #Quote by Mos Def

#20. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me. #Quote by Noel Gallagher

#21. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. #Quote by Mos Def

#22. Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older. #Quote by Lisa Edelstein

#23. I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine. #Quote by Mos Def

#24. I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are. #Quote by Mos Def

#25. I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. #Quote by Mos Def

#26. Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do #Quote by Mos Def

#27. The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like Who on top of this? #Quote by Mos Def

#28. Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead? #Quote by Mos Def

#29. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now. #Quote by Mos Def

#30. There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music. #Quote by Mos Def

#31. Recall Part 3c's mention of how Cantor took what had been regarded as a paradoxical, totally unhandlable feature of (Infinity)-namely that an infinite set/class/aggregate can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with its own subset-and transformed it into the technical def. of infinite set. Watch how he does the same thing here, turning what appear to be devastating objections into rigorous criteria, by defining a set S as any aggregate of collection of discrete entities that satisfies two conditions: (1) S can be entertained by the mind as an aggregate, and (2) There is some stated rule or condition via which one can determine, for any entity x, whether or not x is a member of S. #Quote by David Foster Wallace

#32. I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that. #Quote by Mos Def

#33. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness.
We trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone.
Our music is our alchemy. #Quote by Saul Williams

#34. My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters! #Quote by Kendall Jenner

#35. I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer. #Quote by Joe Budden

#36. If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous." #Quote by Mos Def

#37. Shit," Clutch said after a few minutes. "The high-def has totally ruined porn. Are those ingrown hairs? #Quote by Joanna Wylde

#38. Why do I need ID to get ID?
If I had ID, I wouldn't need ID. #Quote by Mos Def

#39. I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. #Quote by Mos Def

#40. To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. #Quote by Mos Def

#41. Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility. #Quote by Larry Wilmore

#42. As soon as the doors were closed, Amelia went to her sister with her hands raised. At first Cam thought she intended to shake her, but instead Amelia pulled Beatrix close, her shoulders trembling. She could barely breathe for laughing.
"Bea ... you did it on purpose, didn't you? ... I couldn't believe my eyes ... that blasted lizard running along the table ... "
"I had to do something," the girl explained in a muffled voice. "Leo was behaving badly - I didn't understand what he was saying, but I saw Lord Westcliff's face - "
"Oh ... oh ... " Amelia choked with giggles. "Poor Westcliff ... one moment he's def-fending the local population from Leo's tyranny, and then Spot comes s-slithering past the bread plates ... "
"Where is Spot?" Twisting away from her sister, Beatrix approached Cam, who deposited the lizard in her outstretched palms. "Thank you, Mr. Rohan. You have very quick hands."
"So I've been told." He smiled at her. #Quote by Lisa Kleypas

#43. Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. #Quote by Mos Def

#44. Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah #Quote by Def Leppard

#45. I don't wanna be def. Death. Dead. This Burger Twin nappykin just got served as my will, BEOTCH! The fries here suck, by the way. If I die, don't feed my son your shitty fries. Don't give my son to the creepy child molester king you put in your commercials either. What the fuck is wrong with that guy? He's got a normal body and a plastic face that is always smiley. It's not right, man. It's just not right. My ears feel funny. #Quote by Tara Sivec

#46. You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah. #Quote by Mos Def

#47. Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. #Quote by Mos Def

#48. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension. #Quote by Mos Def