Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (Seal) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
-
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
-
I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
-
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
-
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
-
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
-
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
-
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
-
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
-
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
-
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
-
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
-
I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
-
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
-
It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
-
The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
-
The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.
-
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
-
I like to think of myself as a people person.
