Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Prison
  • Stay
  • Maybe

• I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Change

• I must have a drink of breakfast.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Breakfast
  • Drink
  • Must

• I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Stop

• I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Myself
  • Risks
  • New Things

• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Memories
  • Painful
  • Slightly

• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Die

• They either overcompensate for the way they feel and are incredibly sycophantic or incredibly brusque in order to prove they don't think you're superior.

  

  Lucy Lawless

• It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

  

  Kevin Rudd

• I feel what I feel, and in the Premier League, there are some special things, but the pitch is the same. What I believe is good and will be good.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Good
  • Believe

• Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Value

• I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

  

  Mark Rothko

• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Losing
  • Explaining

• Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Respect

• I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie