Olubankole Wellington (Banky W.) Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
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Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.
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I shave my head & shape my beard myself
