Chinua Achebe Quotes
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
G. W. Bailey
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Carl Lewis
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Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
Taylor Swift
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
Gavin O'Connor
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
Sam Yagan
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan
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You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it gave to Germans the common language. So we go forward with the profoundest faith in God into the future. Would that which we have achieved have been possible if Providence had not helped us?
Adolf Hitler
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Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
Nicholas James Murphy
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Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
David Brock
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I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.
Charlize Theron
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I don't have a real attraction or interest to national politics, so I want to see Republicans win across the board in the state of Arizona, because those policies of lower taxes and lighter regulation and strong foreign policy are important to me.
Doug Ducey
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe