Gbenga Akinnagbe Quotes

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Job
  • Day

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Responsibility
  • Creativity

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
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• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • People
  • Power

• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  

  Dada Vaswani
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  • Past
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• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

  

  Christopher Koch
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• Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

  

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