Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
