Chinua Achebe Quotes
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.
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So this is how it is to be done. It is clear that in the Ostmark, the eastern region of the Reich, objects are now to be handled with care. Every silver candlestick is to be weighed. Every fork and spoon is to be counted. Every vitrine is to be opened. The marks on the base of every porcelain figure will be noted. A scholarly question mark is be appended to a description of an Old Master drawing; the dimensions of a picture will be measured correctly. And while this is going on, their erstwhile owners are having their ribs broken and teeth knocked out.
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
