"As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries."

“Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.”

“When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”

“We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.”

“I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.”

Source : "Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally are not a couple - so stop asking". Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

“Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.”

“Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.”