Salim Akil Quotes

My mother, Betty, was an entertainer - she opened up for James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner - and I had an uncle who would work as a chef in a restaurant, 6-foot-3 or 6-foot-4. I was young, so he could have been shorter, but in my mind, that's how tall he was.

Salim Akil

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For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

Jodie Evans

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'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

Joe Carnahan

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Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

Jesse Ventura

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My life is like a movie.

Joel Embiid

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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

Jeff Nichols

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Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Stanislav Grof

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I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

Steve Wilkos

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To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Donald Bren

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Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.

David Sutcliffe

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My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Chris Pratt

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