Akinyele (Akinyele Adams) Quotes
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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We were very poised and played well within the system.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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I am confident. Otherwise, I will not be working as I am working.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
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But one thing she Rachel did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
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It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
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When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.
