O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
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Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.
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I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
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People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.
