Buchi Emecheta Quotes
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.Buchi Emecheta
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam -
I was unbelievably lucky.
Wendy Hiller -
I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
Hailey Bieber -
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
Ted Williams -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O -
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband -
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas -
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen -
Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
Sam Shepard -
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
Walter Smith -
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
Naomi Watts -
To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
Adam Derek Scott -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
L.A. Reid
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I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
Katie Chang -
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost -
When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg -
Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
Bahá'u'lláh -
That's fundamental, basic football that we can be better at. That's what we've got to get across to our team. To me, the biggest factor is we can play smarter than we're playing. We can play harder. Our guys wanted to play, they were prepared to play, but we have to learn to play at a higher tempo when we're playing.
Bob Stoops -
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
Buchi Emecheta