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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Although the word Jihad standing by itself means “struggle,” what Westerners need to focus on when reading the Hadith regarding Mohammed’s Jihad is similar to the focus needed when reading Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolph Hitler.
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.
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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.
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'He will do what we tell him.'
