Chinua Achebe Quotes

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

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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.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• Every lover is a soldier.

  

  Ovid
  • Soldier
  • Lover
  • Every

• 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.

  

  Barney Frank

• I love storytelling.

  

  Jennifer Lynch

• 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.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

  

  Diplo
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Marketing

• I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • School

• 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.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Up
  • City

• 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.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Light

• To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Passion

• I did a history degree once.

  

  Joe Thomas
  • History

• I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Broken
  • Depression

• I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Forever

• Someone gave me great advice. That when you're looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you're not always going to benefit from it.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Great
  • Advice

• Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Capacity

• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Law

• Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

  

  John Cameron
  • Work
  • Cancer

• Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

  

  David Slade
  • Moving

• In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

  

  Eric Betzig

• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

  

  Chinua Achebe