Obafemi Awolowo Quotes

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

Obafemi Awolowo

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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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• 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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• To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

  

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• Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

  

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• We have so many issues in this country to focus on that worry us, that I question why there is such focus on the simple right of people to love whom they will.

  

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• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

  

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• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

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• It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

  

  Obafemi Awolowo