Chinua Achebe Quotes

It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

Chinua Achebe

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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
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• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Losing

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Age
  • Own
  • Middle

• I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Country
  • Love

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Think

• I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Song
  • Amazing
  • Daughter

• When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Moment
  • Down

• I don't have a number, I just want to catch them all. That's always my goal is to maximize every opportunity and every throw that's coming my way.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Opportunity

• If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

  

  Ivan Lendl
  • Feel
  • Lose
  • Hurts

• It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Life
  • Age
  • Learning