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

• I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Born
  • New
  • Roots

• 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
  • You
  • Feeling
  • 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

• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Progress

• 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

• If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Picture

• I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Stars
  • Week
  • Ship

• We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

  

  Mary Kay Ash
  • Life
  • Live
  • She

• Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Remarkable
  • Lists
  • Commonplace

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

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje