Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

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• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Environment
  • Concerts
  • Intrigues

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Music
  • Love
  • Week

• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Painting

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Always
  • Everyday
  • Miracle

• It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Impossible
  • Аlat-Сhested

• Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

  

  Jack Keane
  • More
  • Aggression
  • Unanswered

• I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Perfect
  • Decision
  • Daughter

• Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Child
  • WIld
  • Oh

• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Hurt

• What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart

• What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine

• On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.

  

  Layne Staley

• Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • House
  • Wishes

• I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Live
  • Perfect

• I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

  

  David Walton
  • Long
  • Responsibility

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time to get used to it and grow to be able to hold my own. But I remember when it was done feeling like, 'I don't know if I ever want to go back to working another way.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • World
  • Advantage
  • Nigeria