"My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option."

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Source : "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

Ato Essandoh

#College Quotes #Ghana Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.”
“The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.”
“It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?”

Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing
“The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from Sep 06, 2012
“I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, â€œI know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.”
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.”
“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”

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