Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which are temperature and hydrogen ion concentration.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.
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And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.
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The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.
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We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.
