Chinua Achebe Quotes
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
Chinua Achebe
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
Vidya Balan
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Ed Markey
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Let's close all the Islamist mosques.
Marine Le Pen
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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
Henry David Thoreau
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I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.
Luke Bryan
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To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.
Kumar Pallana
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
Chinua Achebe