Chinua Achebe Quotes
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.
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I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
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It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
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You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.
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I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
