Olubankole Wellington (Banky W.) Quotes
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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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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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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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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
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I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
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I have a lot of lion jewellery and lion art. I also love crystals.
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There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
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I said last week, we've gotta take care of the ball, especially in the first game. Once we lost the lead, we were chasing after that. When something bad happened, we dwelled on that. Not everybody. When that happens, we have to have a short memory and move on.
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As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.
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I shave my head & shape my beard myself
