Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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I talk too much.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.
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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.
