Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I watch a lot of football.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
