Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.
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As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
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When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.
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I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
