Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Grow

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Long
  • Home
  • Walk

• I love a man who can wear my underwear.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Man
  • Wear
  • Underwear

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • History
  • Nature

• As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Talent
  • Strength

• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Skin

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Society

• It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

  

  David Graeber
  • World
  • Important
  • Money

• Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Way
  • Choices
  • Made

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Society
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