Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
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There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
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I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.
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I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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We fear what we don’t know.
