Chinua Achebe Quotes
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I'm always forming bands.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.
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After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
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I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
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We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
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You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.
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I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
