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.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• 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?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Think
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • True
  • Success
  • Promise

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• 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.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• 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
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • More

• My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Family
  • Road

• 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
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Place
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Challenge
  • Film
  • Pay

• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

  

  Jessica White
  • People
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up