Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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An hour to one person might be way more than like a week to somebody else.
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Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.
