Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.
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Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.
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Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured.
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The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
