Obafemi Awolowo Quotes
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.
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One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
