Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
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A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
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Puszczykowo is an important place in my life. I feel like I am at home there.
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I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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I must have been an annoying child.
