Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Binyavanga Wainaina

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• Freedom
• Rest
• Opinion

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• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Peace

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • You
  • Style

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Very

• Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Job

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Want
  • Design

• At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Day
  • End
  • Wealth

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

  

  Danny Glover
  • Believe
  • Choices

• VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group text or Twitter stream of commentary playing out across time zones when a team is playing, our avatars could inhabit virtual stands, side by side with the rest of our digital tribe.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

  

  Jim Walton

• I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Rest