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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I want winners. I want people that want to win.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.
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It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
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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.
