Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

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• I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Together
  • Me

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Seriously
  • Liberal
  • Biased

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  

  Mae West
  • Funny
  • Snow
  • White

• Square meals often make round people.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Round
  • Square

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• 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
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admirable reasons. People who really want to tell brilliant stories and do it in the most effective way possible.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • People

• As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Time
  • Parents

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Long
  • Job
  • Risk

• Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • People
  • Breathe