Chinua Achebe Quotes
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
Candace Bushnell
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Aaron Johnson
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Rand Paul
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
Sam Worthington
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
Eddie Trunk
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
Park Shin-hye
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
Irina Shayk
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
Garret Dillahunt
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
Mandy Patinkin
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban
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Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.
Peter Welch
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
Finn Wittrock
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
Ian Somerhalder
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
Linus Torvalds
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I hear it in the deep heart's core.
William Butler Yeats
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I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Chinua Achebe