Akon Quotes

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akon

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

LifeResponsibilitySelf-RespectOwn

I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

Jenny Slate

FirePeopleThinkWrongDangerous

When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

Jenova Chen

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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom

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If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Steve Carell

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Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

Suge Knight

DeathArtistsNoneThemBankrupt

I'm a binge-watcher!

Sissy Spacek

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In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'

Tom Reiss

LuckSocietyNewSignsJudaismEven

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Missy Elliott

PeopleLongArtistKnowNeverWhere

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.

Dede Gardner

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