Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I don't read books.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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I've traveled around the world.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Trust me, I’ve read your German sageTo far more purpose e’er than you did;You find it in his wisest page,Whom God deludes is well deluded.
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
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I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
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I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.
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Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
