Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

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• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Awkward

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Science

• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• I am not a sentimental person.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Person
  • Sentimental

• I always take my make-up off before bed.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Always
  • Take

• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Different
  • House
  • Kind

• If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Need
  • Gun

• 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Good
  • Me

• When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • War
  • Training

• Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• Margaret Sanger: Well I suppose a subject like that is really so personal that it is entirely up to the parents to decide, but from my view, I believe there should be no more babies in starving countries for the next ten years.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Brain

• While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

  

  Bjork
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hope

• People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

  

  William Shatner
  • People
  • Writing
  • Age

• I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

  

  Florence Pugh
  • Character
  • Create
  • Watch

• I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina