Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
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Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
