Akhil Sharma Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
-
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
-
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
-
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
-
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
-
My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
-
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
-
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
-
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
-
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
-
I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
-
I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
-
Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
-
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
-
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
-
I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
-
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
-
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
-
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
-
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
-
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
-
If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?
-
I know how to write fiction well.