Toks Quotes & Sayings

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. — Johnny Cash

The only way to come to a full acceptance and understanding of yourself is to embrace your own culture, quirks and differences while learning about those around you and exploring, incorporating and embracing their cultures, differences, quirks, etcetera. — Toks Olagundoye

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. — Margaret Fuller

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels. — Toks Olagundoye

It's just hard to believe in the concept of Molly-With-a-Boyfriend. — Becky Albertalli

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job. — Toks Olagundoye

All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day. — Toks Olagundoye

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly. — Toks Olagundoye

If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should. — Charles Dickens

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety. — Toks Olagundoye

Then the Communists set up a front organization, the National Rifle Association, to encourage the wide usage of guns of all sorts, and to battle any attempt to control guns as "unconstitutional." Thus, they guaranteed that the murder rate in Unistat would always be the highest in the world. This kept the citizens in perpetual anxiety about their safety both on the streets and in their homes. The citizens then tolerated the rapid growth of the Police State, which controlled almost everything, except the sale of guns, the chief cause of crime. — Robert Anton Wilson

Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But at the end of the day for a dozen different reasons, not the least of which is that ISIS would like American combat troops on the ground so they could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "Look, we're taking on those terrible Americans." — Bernie Sanders

I don't believe in paying full price for clothing. — Toks Olagundoye

This mirroring quality, whereby we "reteach a thing its loveliness," is one of the greatest attributes of metta. The power of metta enables us to look at people and affirm the rightness of their wish to be happy; it affirms our oneness with them. The power of love reflects both to ourselves and others the manifold possibilities available in each moment. — Sharon Salzberg

Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work. — Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out. — Toks Olagundoye

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense ... — Hermann Bondi

Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace. — Flannery O'Connor

I just have fun doing what I do. If it looks like a good time, I'm up for it! — Toks Olagundoye

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland. — Toks Olagundoye

I've got nice feet. I do pay quite a lot of attention to them. I always have. — Toks Olagundoye

We are all different and that's okay. — Toks Olagundoye

I'm appreciative that people appreciate the care I've taken of my feet. — Toks Olagundoye

There is no sin that is a match for God's grace. — Timothy Keller

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness. — Toks Olagundoye

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives. — Toks Olagundoye

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict. — Toks Olagundoye

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is. — Muhammad Ali

Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are. — Toks Olagundoye

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever. — Sam Kean

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over. — E. M. Forster

I pretty much only wear high heels. — Toks Olagundoye

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me. — Toks Olagundoye

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college. — Toks Olagundoye

I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz. — Toks Olagundoye

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very British. I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time. — Toks Olagundoye

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners. — Toks Olagundoye

All art critics are useless or harmful. — Umberto Boccioni

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life. — Toks Olagundoye