Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Better
  • Human

• I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Window

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• Only men of character are trusted.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Men
  • Character
  • Trusted

• What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Days

• I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Going
  • Stronger
  • Dollars

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Music
  • School
  • Style

• As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Nature

• It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Start

• I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Work
  • Job
  • American

• I'd love to do a big hair campaign for L'Oreal, and Prada would be great, too, obviously.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Great
  • Campaign
  • Obviously

• I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Company
  • Focused
  • Gaming

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Long

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  

  Logic
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Logic

• I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Kids

• You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • People

• Derek's the nicest guy I know. He would never...you know." "He better not...you know!" Hayden bit out.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Guy
  • Knows
  • Bits

• Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

  

  T. Boone Pickens

• Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Player
  • Movement
  • Flowers

• I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie