Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?Uzodinma Iweala
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson -
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein -
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
Zach Anner -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Hank Stram -
It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
Gary Carr -
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
Gail Sheehy -
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
Daniel Cormier -
I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
Pat Buckley -
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Gary Clark Jr.
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I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.
Maggie Hassan -
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam -
I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
Tamer Hassan -
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell -
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Wendell Pierce -
You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood.
Vanessa Ferlito
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Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
Carol Alt -
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade -
You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
Jerry Jeff Walker -
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
Albert Camus -
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
Louis Nizer -
Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?
Uzodinma Iweala