Chinua Achebe Quotes
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.Chinua Achebe
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
Pat Benatar -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Ed Greenwood -
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird -
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs -
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike -
My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
Frances Beinecke -
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan -
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett -
My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn -
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
Yolanda Adams -
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
Fareed Zakaria
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
Madeleine Albright -
The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.
Martin Jacques -
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
Geoff Mulgan -
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
Colin Hanks -
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
Marti Noxon -
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Chinua Achebe