Babatunde Olatunji Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.
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I was convinced - and I am so still - that the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And this certainty filled me with joy.
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All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.
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Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.