Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
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Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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On Las Vegas audiences Those audiences are wonderful. Talk about the most bitter group of people on the planet Earth! For one brief shining moment, I am Mr. Happy!
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
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I have a team around me to support me.
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Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
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Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
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U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
