Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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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.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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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.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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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.
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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.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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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.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I always take my make-up off before bed.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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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.
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It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
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I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
