Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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'But I tried though,' he says. 'Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?'
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
