Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
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A small part of my job at Komen included advocating that mammogram screenings be covered under plans available on the exchanges - just as they are covered in other plans in Georgia.
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A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
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Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
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Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
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When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.
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For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.
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There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.
