Akon Quotes
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection - it is worth living for. It exists. It has been - it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.
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I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
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You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.
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Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.
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Trust is a big deal in life, and I'm very old-school about that stuff.
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History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
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'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
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When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
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People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.
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Yo, this one here, goes out to all my players out there man, you know.
