Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Think
  • Year

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Bank

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Want
  • Career

• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Past
  • Education

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Trust

• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Car

• I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • World
  • School
  • She

• Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

  

  Cody Horn
  • Up

• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • World