Chinua Achebe Quotes
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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I love storytelling.
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I once waited on a group of 10 people, and one guy collected the money from the check and tipped me $20 on $600. I told him in front of everyone, 'Jews like you give Jews like me a bad name.' That was my last waitressing job.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
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Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
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I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me.
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.
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I did a history degree once.
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You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War. We would survive this, too.
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I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
