Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?” “If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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No action is without its side effects.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.
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It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.
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We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.
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Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?” “If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”
