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 am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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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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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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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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You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, save women and before you know it if you try to do that you will burn out very quickly. My feeling is that I always think that and my advice to young people regardless of what times in these decades we've been living in there's always work to be done. The point is what can you do personally that you can live with so that you can get up the next morning and have the strength to start it all over again.
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I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I have a real problem giving up that kind of control. You know, my mother helps me.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
