Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
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I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.
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I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.
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'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
