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Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: March 8, 1957

Topics

Life Opportunity Challenges You Must

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Work Sports Work Ethic Enough Lucky

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

Good Home Money Me Look Back

I'm one of the best players in the world in that No.10 position. Fans, coaches, players, and everyone knows that my best position is playmaker.

Best World Everyone Position Fans

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Life Legs Need Lead Disease Full

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

Live Creative Me Dinner World Think

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.

Tommy Lee Jones

Impossible Someone You Back Play Up

As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.

Dennis Muilenburg

Growth Travel World Economic Growth

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

Work Love Business Parents Parent

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

Phoebe Robinson

Good Tough Decisions Unhappy Doing

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.

Morning Tea You Nothing Going Get

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

Time Day Creative Writing Year Go

Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks.

Step Me Looking Voice Black Fat

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