Chinua Achebe Quotes
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
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There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.
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Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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Everybody could use the money, but you don't play for it - you play with your heart - and that's a big difference you see in Barcelona. Everybody wants to play there; everybody wants to enjoy themselves. It's maybe a small percentage, but maybe it's the difference.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
