Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.
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I am not honest.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
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I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.
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I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.
