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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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
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When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
