Chinua Achebe Quotes
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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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.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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.
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Music is my release.
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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.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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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.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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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.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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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.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I think I need pictures with my articles.
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
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When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.
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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
