O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
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To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
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One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
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People are not stupid.
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I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
