Chris Abani Quotes
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.Chris Abani
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis -
You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
Paloma Elsesser -
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
Dan Kildee
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
Taylor Swift -
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
Hanya Yanagihara -
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
F. Sionil Jose -
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
Edmond About -
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne -
I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
R. Kelly -
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
Walter Gilbert -
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.
John Walters -
It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
Dennis Hastert -
Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.
David Graeber -
If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
John McEnroe -
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
Chris Abani