Abiola Abrams Quotes
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
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Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
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The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
