Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
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Safety should be a birthright.
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I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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This version, or is it a vision, has nothing to do with me,
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
