Salim Akil Quotes

I grew up, I had three uncles and... I loved Uncle Donald because he gave me dating advice, and I was, like, 5. But the other thing that I found fascinating about my Uncle Donald is he dressed up like a woman. And so I grew up around all of these men who dressed like women, so when I hear that, I don't hear a cause. I hear my family.

Salim Akil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession:
  • Nationality:

Topics

FamilyWomenMenWomanDatingMe

Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.

Joanna Coles

DecisionThinkConfidentYouSay

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

John Hume

PeopleControlSituationGhetto

In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

Matt Lauer

I AmMindFrustrationPhone CallFix

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

WorldEndSaidStreetLondonCorner

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

Dick Van Dyke

CloudsMindThoughtYouLoseGrass

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

Christopher Markus

CharacterLoseSightNeverOurJobs

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

PeopleThoughtsGoldThinkThinking

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

William Osler

LifePhysicianYoungOldDisease

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Pope Benedict XVI

WorkMyselfMeLordActAbove

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Niklas Zennstrom

PeopleConnectionsInternetPowerful

I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.

Nicole Scherzinger

ConfidencePerformanceSongNegative

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

Lynda Barry

AfraidLoudLaughed

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Salim Akil