Chinua Achebe Quotes

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe

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• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

  

  Jack Wild
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Political
  • Party
  • Christian

• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Future
  • Tomorrow

• I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Control
  • Rest

• I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Fun

• It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Health
  • Look

• People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Alive
  • Prison

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Things
  • Said
  • Will

• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Germany
  • Trendy
  • Ham

• Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Devil
  • Lucifer

• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

• Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Pain
  • Memories

• Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

  

  Chinua Achebe