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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  Dan Quayle
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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
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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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• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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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.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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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.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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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.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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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.

  

  Candy Crowley
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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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• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

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• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

  

  Origen
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• Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

  

  Noma Dumezweni
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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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• I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably - besides the first two 'Alien' films, I watch '2001', I watch 'Star Wars', the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, 'Empire Strikes Back' especially.

  

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• I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.

  

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• I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

  

  Aubrey O'Day
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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.

  

  Chinua Achebe
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