Peter Akinola Quotes
'To opine that, unknown to humans, God had hitherto created some people to be homosexuals and lesbians (i.e., sexual orientations) is tantamount to creating God in our own image and introducing a cancerous element into the fabric of the African understanding of marriage and family.'
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.
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The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.
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I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.
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It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.
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'To opine that, unknown to humans, God had hitherto created some people to be homosexuals and lesbians (i.e., sexual orientations) is tantamount to creating God in our own image and introducing a cancerous element into the fabric of the African understanding of marriage and family.'
