Chinua Achebe Quotes
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the only magazines they subscribed to were 'The Atlantic' and 'The New Yorker,' broke down and got 'Life' magazine.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.
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I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
