Taking a Different Path Quotes

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Sometimes leadership is not going along with everybody else.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

I had the benefit, I'll say it, of coming up behind my brother and seeing what he went through and just simply trying do the opposite oftentimes.

My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn't for me. I was sort of lost at sea.