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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I don't care if it's one dollar or a thousand dollars - I'm going to go out and get it.
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I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.
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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
