Mo Abudu Quotes

#1. Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

Mo Abudu

#2. I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.

Mo Abudu

#3. Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different

Mo Abudu

#4. Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

Mo Abudu

#6. Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes.
-Vane Weston

Shannon Messenger

#7. I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.

Mo Abudu

#8. Change Won't Happen Immediately, as Nigeria's Problems Didn't Start Overnight

Mo Abudu

#9. For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

Gay Hendricks

#10. Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

David Lynch

#11. I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Mathew Baynton

#12. We can change the narrative about Africa with content.

Mo Abudu

#13. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Robert Frost

#14. I am very driven. I do believe in what I call "the G factor." I must be spirit led.

Mo Abudu

#15. Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.

Jean Chatzky

#16. I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.

Jacques Myard

#17. The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.

Andre Vltchek

#18. I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I think we've moved beyond that Africans vs. African Americans. They may have more issues with us than we do with them.

Mo Abudu

#19. I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

Ken Livingstone

#20. Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.

Mo Abudu

#21. Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will.

Oliver Cromwell

#22. There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.

Mo Abudu

#23. Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

N.D. Wilson