Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Binyavanga Wainaina

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• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Country
  • Power

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Transformation
  • Calmness
  • Kate Winslet

• I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Person
  • Really
  • Optimistic

• The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Great
  • Transformation

• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Pretty
  • Optimistic
  • Call

• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • God
  • Men
  • Dark

• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Optimistic
  • I Can
  • Hopeful

• You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • America
  • Poverty
  • Transformation

• Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Life
  • Basketball

• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Father

• The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Wealth
  • Material

• Why is this century worse than those others? Maybe, because, in sadness and alarm, It only touched the blackest of the ulcers, But couldn't heal it in its span of time.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • Why

• I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Transformation
  • Optimistic