Chinua Achebe Quotes
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
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The greatest nation and most powerful nation on Earth.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
