Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Eden Hazard
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
Kate Reardon
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
Dan Jenkins
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Rachel Caine
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I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
