Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (Seal) Quotes
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I don't believe in God.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
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I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
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I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.
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I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.
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The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
