O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
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Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.
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Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
