Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Goal

• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Friends
  • Weird

• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Never

• Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Style

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Pretty
  • Universe
  • Model

• Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore entitled to inspiration in their specific responsibilities. Lean upon them. Learn from them. Love them. Listen to them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Inspiration
  • Responsibilities
  • Presidents

• The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

  

  Mark Haddon

• When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.

  

  Joe Dante
  • Movie

• Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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  • Important