Chinua Achebe Quotes
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
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That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!
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My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
