Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Me
  • Always
  • Rejection

• I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respect

• The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Community
  • Will

• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Democrat

• Nothing ever goes away.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Nothing
  • Away
  • Ever

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• I always take my make-up off before bed.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Always
  • Take

• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Done
  • Winning
  • Lottery

• I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Day
  • Expectations
  • Birthday

• It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Family
  • School
  • Values

• Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Friend
  • Thought

• We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Path
  • Tears

• Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Opinion
  • Parent
  • Prejudice

• When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Friends
  • Boy

• I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie