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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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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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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We rule out raising taxes this year.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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Once I loved, and she I loved was darkened.Again I loved, and love itself was darkened.Vainly we follow the circle of shadowy days.The screen at last grows dark, the flutes are silent.The doors of night are closed. We go our ways.
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It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
