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# Bolaji Idowu

Pastor Bolaji Idowu (born 1978) is the Lead Pastor of Harvesters International Christian Center, in Lagos, Nigeria. He founded the Harvesters Center, a multi-faith church, in December 2003, and is a frequent speaker on religious matters.He has also spoken on political matters.

## Quotes

* As a minister, the ministry is not about you, and that’s the thing we always forget. It is about the people.
** Pastor Bolaji Idowu Shares Mistake Most Pastors Make That’s Driving People Away from Church
* Whatever message you have that cannot connect to help people, disciple them, take them to a deeper place, and help them solve their problems, the message is ineffective.
** Pastor Bolaji Idowu Shares One Mistake Most Pastors Make That’s Driving People Away from Church
* Pastors become people blind.It’s not that they don’t see the people, but you know when you deal with too much pain, you become insensitive to pain. That’s why some doctors may come across as mean.
** Pastor Bolaji Idowu Shares One Mistake Most Pastors Make That’s Driving People Away from Church
* Sometimes, the best comes out of pain; the gold or gift is in your mess. That’s why you sometimes go through seasons of pain.
** Bolaji Idowu: Next level prayers came out from a place of pain
* All of us are different, the way I was raised was that I depended on people emotionally.
** Bolaji Idowu: Next level prayers came out from a place of pain
# Bolaji Ogunmola

Bolaji Ogunmola is a Nigerian actress. Ogunmola was a participant in the 2013 Next Movie Star reality show. Her role in Okon goes to School has been cited as the first film in which she appeared professionally.

## Quotes

* Fashion means being comfortable; it is the way you express yourself.
** Bolaji on fashion in 2023
* if you put your mind to it you can make it, if you are consistent, you will have an excellent grade and go for it. You can make it.
** Bolaji on being consistent in 2023
* Love people, love yourself, love the world.
** Bolaji on world in 2023
* Whatever you mirror is what you receive
** Bolaji on life in 2023
* The most important things in life are not things you can hold on to, there are memories, it is time spent with people that really matters.
** Bolaji on memories in 2023
* Regardless of your chosen career, the right man will find you someday.
** Bolaji on career in 2023
* It is not what you do, but who you are.
** Bolaji on personality in 2023
* Don’t be afraid, keep working hard. Everything will work out.
** Bolaji give advise in 2021
* Being an actor doesn’t make one a superhuman.
** Bolaji on challenges of being an actor in 2020
* You must be able to look good and also be able to act. If you have a Kim Kardashian body but can’t act, you won’t go far.
** Bolaji on acting breakthrough in 2018
* You just focus on you and what makes you happy.
** Bolaji on misconceptions in 2018
* A true and complete man should not be intimidated by a woman’s success. In fact, a man should help his woman become more successful.
** Bolaji on true men in 2016
* A successful movie is that which impacts positively on the viewer. A movie people can remember for a long time is a successful one.
** Bolaji on successful movie in 2016
* Today’s love is realistic. It’s past the Romeo and Juliet thing. Love is mutual understanding.
** Bolaji on love in 2016
* Relationships are about responsibility. If you can’t take care of your partner, then the relationship is faulty.
** Bolaji on relationship in 2016
# Bolanle Austen-Peters

Bolanle Austen-Peters (born February 4, 1969) is a Nigerian movie and theatre director and lawyer. She is the founder and Managing Director of Terra Kulture, the foremost Nigerian Art and Culture centre located in Lagos.

## Quotes

* “Money is not an end, Value is the end. Focus on adding value to the society and money will follow”.
* “I followed my passion”.
* “Finding my passion has really helped me, I go to work not thinking I am working”.
** ] From an interview(June 30 2019)
* I'm a woman of faith, but what I found in Nigeria is that a lot of people have increasingly been driven into this crazy love for worshipping men instead of God.
** Bolanle Austen-Peters speaks on ‘ Man of God’.
* And a lot of men are turning this spiritual institution into commerce and they are using it for personal gains.
* I am a student of literature and history. I believe that art is a powerful tool for us in our society to use, to depict all the things that are going on, and a possible escape for some of us who are traumatized by the things we see in Nigeria.
* So in directing over the past 10 years, I understand how to make a connection with people. This is because what’s often lacking in a lot of productions is the ability to connect. So, once the emotions are not there and people can’t feel what you are saying, you have lost the audience.
* The resources we have as a Nation is not what is critical, what is critical is the development of the human mind. The creative mind is the most important resource tool in any nation.
* There is no laziness in any business, that wants to succeed.
* Even though your family and friends discourage you, and you know where you're going, keep your focus and surround yourself with positive minds.
* You're bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and youâ€™re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.
* Relevance itself is wealth, it's a quality and a value. Time buys you relevance, time buys you greatness, time buys you money. So you must stay in the vision and with time, you would reap the benefits.
* You're bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and youâ€™re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.

## External links

* Official website
# Bola Kuforiji-Olubi

Bola Kuforiji-Olubi (28 September 1936 – 3 December 2016) was a Nigerian traditional aristocrat, accountant, banker and politician; she was minister of commerce and industry in 1993 during the Interim National Government of Chief Ernest Shonekan. In addition to a variety of other chieftaincy titles, she held that of the Otunba Ayora of Ijebu-Ode.

## Quotes

* Overcoming Obstacles is the True Measure of Success.
** Bola Kuforiji-Olubi's Quotes
* I pride myself on being a person who is able to juggle several balls in the air at the same time. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of diligence.
** Lesson from Bola Kuforiji-Olubi's Life
# Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born 18 December 1963) is an American actor and film producer.

## Quotes

* I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy … I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.
** As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997)
* I've always paid attention to religion … because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them — other than goat sacrificing.
** As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997)
* You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.
** As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997)
* Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
** US Weekly (18 September 2000)
* Fame is a bitch, man.
** Viasat magazine (May 2001)

## External links

* IMDb Profile
* Not On Our Watch - Founded by: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub
# Brad Little

Bradley Jay Little (February 15, 1954–) is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Idaho since January 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2009 to 2019. Little served in the Idaho Senate from 2001 to 2009 where he chaired the majority caucus and represented the 8th and 11th legislative districts (change due to redistricting in 2002).

## Quotes

* The necessity of having a good education is part of what we are going to do to in Idaho advance the ball for everybody. Everybody having a good education is in everybody's best interest.
** MAKING THE GRADE: Exclusive one-on-one interview with Governor Brad Little (24 Feb 2019)

## External links

* Official website
# Brad Sherman

Bradley James Sherman (born October 24, 1954) is an American accountant and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 30th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 1997; Sherman represented California's 24th congressional district for three terms and California's 27th congressional district for five terms.

## Quotes

* The crypto bros are spending tens of millions in Washington to make sure this industry is regulated as lightly as possible, ... There are no lobbyists or PACs dedicated to preventing tax evasion, sanctions evasion, and the other forms of illicit finance that cryptocurrency enables,
** "Crypto skeptics have been debating online for years. Now they’re organizing." (Aug. 15, 2022) NBC News.
# Bergen Evans

Bergen Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) , U.S. lexicographer and educator. Evans was an English professor who became the master of ceremonies for the $64,000 Question and wrote Word A Day Vocabulary Builder (1963). He also wrote Dictionary of Quotations, a quote book annotated with witty and illustrative comments on the quotes by Evans, himself.

## Quotes

* [Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
** Dictionary of Quotations.
* Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
** The Natural History of Nonsense XIX.
* We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
** The Natural History of Nonsense.
# Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.

## Quotes

* Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
** "It Has to Walk Alone," Infinity magazine, 1951.
* Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
** Popular Photography, February 1940.
* I wanted to photograph this subject because the signs’ shrieking blatancy literally cried out for a visual record. To my mind the faded, yellowing paper and the red paint were not particularly paint,able. In black and white the signs shouted, clamored for attention, in visual anarchy. At the same time, the shrewd business sense which plastered them solid over the entire window area produced, as it were by chance, an esthetic by-product: the whole has homogeneity and variety of texture, simultaneously, which give the picture interest.
** New Guide to Better Photography, 1953.
* The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.
** Quoted in Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, 2002.
*** Referring to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
* I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism—real life—the now.
** "Photography at the Crossroads," 1951.
* People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
** Art News, January 1981.

## Quotes about Berenice Abbott

* The Saturday arguments about photography as a machine art are answered by the best photographers. "If the camera were a machine!" Berenice Abbott said, "with the precision and the flexibility, the accommodation and power of machines as we know them today!" And "Our lighting has not been begun," she said. "We need a light as good as sunlight-better than sunlight."
** Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)

## External links

* Minneapolis Institute of Arts- Get the Picture: Berenice Abbott
# Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel

Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel (14 July 1948–) is an Ethiopian Catholic cardinal.

## Quotes

* Life for refugees is not easy, that fact should be told.
** Ethiopian Cardinal Explains the Hard Realities Facing Many African Youth (October 18, 2018)
* We have the big challenge of poverty; I mean material poverty. It is a country of tremendous historical riches and values since the time of the apostolic age; peaceful coexistence among the different religions like Christianity with Muslims, and so on. These are great riches which Ethiopia can share with many parts of Africa and the world.
** Ethiopian Cardinal Discusses Hope of Peace and What He Learned From St. John Paul II (October 22, 2019)
# Berislav Grgić

Berislav Grgić (born 15 February 1960) is a prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The Catholic Church in the Northern Lands - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - is a very small minority and therefore has neither the advantages nor the disadvantages that the Catholic Church often comes across in traditional and prevalently Catholic regions. Despite its limited relevance, numeric as well as social, our Church is nonetheless a growing Church.
** - H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Berislav GRGIĆ, Bishop Prelate of Tromsø (NORWAY) (13 October 2012) Press Office of the Holy See
# Beretta

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a privately held Italian firearms manufacturing company operating in several countries. Its firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes.

## Quotes

* I pull out my Beretta!
** Robert S. Kelly, "Trapped in the Closet" (2005)
* Touch my cheddar, feel my Beretta.
** Christopher Wallace, "Get Money" (1994), Ready to Die

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Beretta on Wikipedia
# Berita

Gugulethu Khumalo (born 27 June 1991), best known by her stage name Berita, is a Zimbabwean-born singer, songwriter and music producer. Her music is a combination of soul music containing elements from Afro Jazz, contemporary pop influences as well as South African dance music.

## Quotes

* Whatever you are going through in your personal life also affects your voice and that is exactly what I was going through hence I took time out around mid-2021
* The day I learnt that I was in an abusive relationship I did not stay one minute and made plans to get out of there,
* When we were dating and when we first got married I only really started to see the signs of what was going on and that I am in too deep. 21 December 2021 was the day I stopped loving him and had to break loose.
** Berita still has vividly bad memories of the day she left marriage SundayWorld , 23 February 2023 by Mbalendle Zuma

## External Links

Official website
# Anisia Uzeyman

Anisziya Uwizeyimana (born February 1975 at Gihindamuyaga in Mbazi, Rwanda) is a Rwandan actress and playwright. She is most noted as codirector with Saul Williams of the 2021 film Neptune Frost.

## Quotes

* This is a film we made very independently by ourselves and to be able to see it travel like this and be seen, has been beautiful.
** Anisia Uzeyman said that, It has been great to see the industry embracing this film (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
* Young people worldwide are demanding the same things that we talk about in the film, and these are universal concerns, but we don’t always take into account that those discussions are also happening in places like Rwanda or Burundi. I wondered, what would it be like to tell the story of these deliberations from the inside instead of the outside.
** how do we propose our take on these issues instead of being told what the take is, said Anisia Uzeyman (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
* It is a very interesting thing for every immigrant, that question of where your heart is and what is linking you to a place, especially one that isn’t the easiest of places to exist in.
** Anisia Uzeyman said, her relationship with the country is often complicated given its history, (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
* It comes from a desire to speak from Rwanda, for Rwanda and also for the world so that everybody is able to identify themselves in this part of the world that you are not usually invited to enter. On some level, we are all the same.
** Neptune Frost is profoundly rooted, said Anisia Uzeyman (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
* I wanted to secure a certain quality and technique because it’s a lot of science and a lot of the art to put together an image.
** Anisia Uzeyman said that, I tried to see how it was possible for those two things to meet. (The Moveable Fest, June 2, 2022)
* Cecile Kayiregawa, who plays [the elder nun], is a renowned singer in Rwanda and for anyone who knows that place, [what] it was like to have her, to be able to work with her and to capture her in this film — she’s really revered, it was like meeting a queen.
** Anisia Uzeyman said that, when we got the possibility to get in touch with her. (The Moveable Fest, June 2, 2022)
# Anisa Aboud

Anisah Aboud (1957) is a Syrian poet, writer, and novelist.

## Quotes

* A novel demands patience, endurance, and a deep accumulation of cultural, intellectual, and historical knowledge. An author requires all these tools and weapons to create. A short story, on the other hand, needs a focused point of concentration and a language that is entirely different from both the novel and the poem. It's a challenging and intensive creative endeavor, which is why there are relatively few short story writers.
* الرواية تحتاج إلى صبر ونفس طويل وتراكم ثقافي ومعرفي وتاريخي فالكاتب يحتاج لكل هذه الأسلحة والأدوات حتى يبدع، بينما تحتاج القصة إلى بؤرة تركيز ولغة مختلفة تماماً عن الرواية والقصيدة لأنها عمل إبداعي صعب ومكثف لذلك هناك عدد قليل من كتاب القصة.
* — Interview with the Wehda
# Animism

Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many indigenous peoples, especially in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organised religions.

## Quotes

* “The old religion.” “Druids?” asked Shadow. He was uncertain what other old religions there were, in England. “Could be. Definitely could be. But I think it predates the druids. Doesn’t have much of a name. It’s just what people in these parts practice, beneath whatever else they believe. Druids, Norse, Catholics, Protestants, doesn’t matter. That’s what people pay lip service to. The old religion is what gets the crops up and keeps your cock hard and makes sure that nobody builds a bloody great motorway through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The Gateway stands, and the hill stands, and the place stands. It’s well, well over two thousand years old. You don’t go mucking about with anything that powerful.
** Neil Gaiman, Black Dog in Trigger Warning (2015), ISBN 978-0-06-305204-8, pp. 321-322
* For animism the world is divided into a reality and a super-reality, a visible phenomenal world and an invisible world of spirits, a mortal body and an immortal soul. The burial customs and rites make it quite clear that Neolithic man was already beginning to conceive the soul as a substance divided from the body. The magic view of the world is monistic, it sees reality in the form of a simple texture, of an uninterrupted and coherent continuum; but animism is dualistic, it forms its knowledge and beliefs into a two-world system. Magic is sensualistic and holds fast to the concrete; animism is spiritualistic and inclines to abstraction. In the one case thought is centred on the life of this world, in the other on that of the world to come. That is the main reason why Palaeolithic art reproduces things true to life and reality, whilst Neolithic art opposes a stylized and idealized super-world to ordinary empirical reality.
** Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages (1962)
# Anirvan

Anirvan or Sri Anirvan (Bengali: শ্রী অনির্বান Sri Anirvan) (8 July 1896 – 31 May 1978) born Narendra Chandra Dhar (Bengali: নরেন্দ্রচন্দ্র ধর) was an Indian/Bengali/Hindu monk, writer, Vedic scholar and philosopher. He was widely known as a scholar and his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine and the three volume treatise Veda Mimamsa.

## Quotes

* My aim? Simply to inspire people and give them the most complete freedom to live their own life. No glamour, no fame, no institution - nothing. To live simply and die luminously.
** Inner yoga (antaryoga): Anirvan. (1988). New Delhi: Voice of India. From the Introduction by Ram Swarup.

## About Sri Anirvan

* From his childhood, Narendra was introspective and loved solitude. Once when he was only nine years, he had an inner experience which profoundly affected him. He saw that the sky with its myriad stars entered into him. He felt wide, free and detached, like the sky. ... he became the sadhaka of the Void.
** Inner yoga (antaryoga): Anirvan. (1988). New Delhi: Voice of India. From the Introduction by Ram Swarup.
* The subject-matter of this book is sadhana. There are not many books like this on this subject showing such mastery and insight. Sri Anirvan lived a life of dedication and reflection and he speaks as an insider. He takes his readers onto unfamiliar grounds and there is no doubt that they will find in him a sure guide on this unusual pilgrimage.
** Inner yoga (antaryoga): Anirvan. (1988). New Delhi: Voice of India. From the Introduction by Ram Swarup.

## External links

Modern Hindu writers 19th century to date :
| Religious writers | Mirra Alfassa • Anirvan • Aurobindo • Chinmoy • Eknath Easwaran • Nisargadatta Maharaj • Ramana Maharshi • Maharishi Mahesh Yogi • Narayana Guru • Sister Nivedita • Srila Prabhupada • Chinmayananda Saraswati • Dayananda Saraswati • Sivananda • Ravi Shankar • Shraddhanand • Vivekananda • Yogananda |
| Political writers | Advani • Deepak • Gandhi • Gautier • Gopal • Jain • Kishwar • Munshi • Radhakrishnan • Rai • Roy • Sarda • Sastri • Savarkar • Sen • Shourie • Shiva • Singh • Tilak • Upadhyaya • Vajpayee |
| Literary writers | Bankim • Gundappa • Iyengar • Rajagopalachari • Sethna • Tagore • Tripathi |
| Scholars | Altekar • Balagangadhara • Coomaraswamy • Daniélou • Danino • Dharampal • Feuerstein • Frawley • Goel • Jain • Kak • Kane • Mukherjee • Nakamura • Rambachan • Rosen • Malhotra • Sampath • Schweig • Swarup |
| Non-Hindus influenced by Hinduism | Besant • Blavatsky • Chopra • Crowley • Dass • Daumal • Deussen • Eliade • Eliot • Elst • Emerson • Ginsberg • Guénon • Harrison • Huxley • Isherwood • Krishnamurti • Lynch • Malraux • Miller • Montessori • Müller • Olcott • Oppenheimer • Roerich • Rolland • Schopenhauer • Schrödinger • Thoreau • Tolstoy • Voltaire • Watts • Wilber • Yeats |