Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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  • Believe
  • Moral

• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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  • Time
  • Weird

• Men tend to be selfish.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Men
  • Selfish
  • Tend

• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Different

• I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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  • Morning
  • Famous

• I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
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  • Strong
  • Myself

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
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  • Family
  • Together

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

  

  Alex Flinn
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• So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Business
  • War

• Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Money
  • Growing

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

  

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