Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) Quotes
I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
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I hate seaweed.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.
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I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.
