Akon Quotes
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.
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I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.
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I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.
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I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
