Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
Karan Johar -
I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
Ziyi Zhang -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine -
When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
Sam Smith -
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector -
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Felix Dennis -
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Magic Johnson -
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
Kate Winslet -
I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
Utada Hikaru -
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.
e. e. cummings -
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
John Polkinghorne -
Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali -
I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.
Jon Hamm -
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial. Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie