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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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
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Can I remember- 'I remember lots,' I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
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Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?
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As a rule, each entity is born so that he experiences at least three roles, that of mother, father and child . . . Beside the three necessary roles there is another quality, different in dimension, which is also necessary for the personality, and this involves the fullest use of potential.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
