Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Mean
  • Criticism
  • Just

• 'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writer
  • Monday

• Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Create
  • Painful
  • Shoe

• Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Like
  • Animal
  • Name

• Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Winning

• Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • People
  • Face
  • Seem

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Better

• I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Today
  • Technology

• Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Different
  • Wall

• My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. 'Libby-ah,' she'll say to me. 'Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.' And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

  

  Amy Tan
  • World
  • She
  • Eyes

• I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Life
  • Attitude

• I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • World

• Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People

• Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Women
  • Trying
  • College

• Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

  

  David Luiz
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Everything

• I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Greatness

• There is a time for all things, but I didn't know it. And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Knowledge
  • Fool
  • Trade

• Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje