Ayobami Adebayo Quotes
I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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I think a good song is a good song is a good song.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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The healthy attitude, the only reasonable one towards a fault made or a sin committed is surely a vigorous shake of one’s moral shoulders, vigorous enough to shake it off and out of remembrance. The sin itself was a sad waste of time and happiness, and absolutely no more should be wasted in lugubriously reflecting on it. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?
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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
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I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
