Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
Jack Ma
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
Kate Bosworth
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
Fatema Mernissi
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
Larry Wilmore
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
A. R. Rahman
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. Abrams
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But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
Ted Demme
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Life is for the living, not the dead, who belong to the past and are at peace and beyond all further pain and suffering 'somewhere in the great somewhere.
Daphne Sheldrick
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Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.
Jessie Mueller
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These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them.
Ellen Ochoa
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Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.
Kelly Osbourne
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The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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I'm from Europe, England, and I actually lived in Italy.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
