Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
Walter Isaacson
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You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
Dakota Blue Richards
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard
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I definitely know people who are shameless enough to give up basic values. I see this kind of art, and when I see it I feel ashamed. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence. It is pretending to be art. It looks like art. It sells like art. But it is really a piece of shit.'
Ai Weiwei
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People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.
Letitia Baldrige
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Globally, we need to make sure that markets are open... If we see that there are restrictions on free trade, then simple economic logic will demonstrate that this is not beneficial.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.
Binyavanga Wainaina
