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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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
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Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
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I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.
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I never had that star aura.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
