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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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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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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I was really gobsmacked.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
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As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
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Wherever you are, that's the entry point.
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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Even as he looks upon your face, masked with flesh so rotten it’s gone charcoal black, he calls you an angel. This is a first. You’ve been called a god for your power and you’ve been called the devil for your fierceness, but you’ve never been called an angel for your services.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
