Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• I started drama in high school.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • School
  • High
  • Drama

• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Work
  • America
  • Really

• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Old

• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • War
  • Think
  • Criminal

• I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Box

• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Art
  • Writers
  • Scientists

• Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Personality
  • End

• If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Inspiration

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • May
  • Squad

• Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

  

  Betsy Hodges

• It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Night
  • Sad
  • Wonderful

• For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Freedom
  • Decision
  • Rich

• In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Time

• I feel like there are instances and circumstances in your life that always change. You can think someone's your friend, and it could be out of convenience, or there was something in it for them, or whatever. And a year later, something happens and you really need help, or all of a sudden they have to stand up for you, and it could be inconvenient for them or not benefit them. And they don't have your back. And you're like, "Ok, that friendship was circumstantial. You were only my friend when it was easy." What's hard is you can't tell from the beginning.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Help
  • Change

• You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje