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 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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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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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
