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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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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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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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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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'
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I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
