Amadou Hampate Ba Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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There's always a source for humor.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.
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Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
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The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.