Peter Akinola Quotes
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
