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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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
