Akon Quotes

When destiny forgets to tie two persons in blood relation, it corrects its mistake by making them true friends.

I do not have the words to describe the feeling of when the war isn't foreign anymore.

Inspiration plus application equals success.

It’s like watching your favorite movie and being afraid to get to the end. That’s because you’ve seen the movie before and you know things will go horribly wrong. I watch all the way up to the part where he lays me down and then I “rewind” the movie.

The more I learned about Pierce, the more curious I was about him. He flew around the world promoting crypto in a Gulfstream jet that he had spray painted with Monopoly money and the Bitcoin and Ethereum logos. He had mounted a vanity presidential campaign in 2020 with the singer Akon as his chief strategist. He wore loud hats, vests, and bracelets, like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, and spoke in riddles like Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He had a tattoo of a scorpion on his right shoulder. He was, of course, a regular at Burning Man.

One last time, Akon thought of all his fear, of the sick feeling in his stomach and the burning that was becoming a pain in his throat. He pinched himself on the arm, hard, very hard, and felt the warning signal telling him to stop. Goodbye, Akon thought; and the tears began falling down his cheek, as though that one silent word had, for the very last time, broken his heart. And he lived happily ever after.

Slowly, elaborately, Akon's head dropped to the table with a dull thud. "Why couldn't we have been alone in the universe?