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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The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
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I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx - I'm still confused as to why retailers haven't ripped them off yet and done it well. It's because they don't understand the basics behind it. I love Spanx. I'm wearing 'em right now!
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We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.
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I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'
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The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.
