Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.
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Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
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Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.
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Ignorance in certain places frightens me. The political situation of the world frightens me. Political anger around the globe frightens me. The lack of love in the world frightens me. Violence frightens me.
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I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
