"My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work."

“I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.”

Source : "Akon Says His Age is a 'Mystery'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2009.

“People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.”

“I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?”

“[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.”

“The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.”

“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

Source : "Science in Russian Culture: A History to 1860". Book by Alexander Vucinich, June 1963.

“When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.”

Source : "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

“The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.”