"Oh what a friend chance can be â€” when it chooses."

-- Winslow Homer

“Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.”
“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”
“I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.”

Source : "Gbenga Akinnagbe talks Damages, Nurse Jackie and upcoming film projects". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. September 29, 2012.
“Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.”
“You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.”
“In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.”
“Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.”

Source : Thomas Ferguson (2011). “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems”, p.362, University of Chicago Press
“Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.”

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