Toyin Odutola Quotes

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Toyin Odutola

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IdentityPerformanceAmericaSomeone

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

Jill Scott

LifePeopleThinkUniverseEnjoy

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

John Mayer

MatterEarnGoing

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

HistoryPeopleFarmingExistence

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

John Tesh

WorkRisksPeopleTrueTakePray

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

John Rhys-Davies

LifeLovePeopleWorldRestYou

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Suge Knight

MoneyHappyPeopleEnoughWantMore

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

Ron Wyden

CustomerInsuranceWayRightLine

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

Miranda Richardson

TimeMeLondonOpenGroundedGet

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

Luis Alberto Urrea

LoveYouTitlesDarlingBatBooks

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Bruce Babbitt

MistakesThinkEarlyWashingtonLand

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Plutarch

PeopleRealBenefitsWhoHeThem

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Pontius Pilate

ManPeopleMeYouHimFault

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