Chinua Achebe Quotes
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I'd love to have a little Coco if I could have my way. I always dress up my dogs and they probably hate me for it, so it would be nice to dress up a human being.
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When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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People see what they see in the photo. I’m just putting it out there but people make their own evaluations of what things are.
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I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
