Uche Okafor Quotes
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.
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I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.
