Ory Okolloh Quotes
While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
