Chinua Achebe Quotes
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.Chinua Achebe
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam -
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Nancy Gibbs -
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
Felicia Day -
Music is my release.
Ed Westwick
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa -
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer -
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski -
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart Tolle -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
Gavin Newsom -
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney -
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez -
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
Beatrice Webb -
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
Ralph Marston -
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
Garrett Hardin -
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West -
Fairy tales-simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.
Matthew Stover -
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe