Chinua Achebe Quotes
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
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Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
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I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
