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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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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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 don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructive in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
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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.
