Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
Adam Cohen -
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons -
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya -
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
H. R. McMaster -
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
Mackenzie Davis -
With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
Gary Weiss -
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
K. D. Lang
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
Ed Sheeran -
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
Oscar Isaac -
I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
Zoe Saldana -
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
L'Wren Scott
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus -
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.
Jerome Powell -
My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
Mahershala Ali -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
Kyle Mooney -
When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje