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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Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
