Chinua Achebe Quotes
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Chinua Achebe
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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.
Jack Ma
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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.
Kage Baker
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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.
Tamzin Merchant
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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.
Edgar Ramirez
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.
Daphne Bavelier
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
Andrew Solomon
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
Iman
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Chinua Achebe