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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Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.
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I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.
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'You and I don’t actually need to be here for this,' I said to the goat. The goat didn’t respond, but I could tell she agreed with me.
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The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself
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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.
