Gbenga Akinnagbe Quotes
My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
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A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.
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Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
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Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
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My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
