Chinua Achebe Quotes
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Chinua Achebe
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.
Fat Joe
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
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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.
Abigail Breslin
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
Raekwon
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When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
Jim Goad
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
Vaclav Havel
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Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.
Gary Gulman
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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.
Chinua Achebe