Peter Akinola Quotes
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
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This isn't a drift-net out there where we're soaking up everyone's communications.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.
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In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.
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'He will do what we tell him.'
