Babatunde Fashola Quotes
The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I was a tomboy.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.
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The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
