Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
  • America
  • Sorry

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

  Becky G
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Problem

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• There is no truly global justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Justice
  • Global
  • Truly

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Friend

• When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Part
  • Girls
  • Script

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

  

  Randy West
  • High
  • Respect
  • Honor

• As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Done
  • America
  • Movie

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Holiday

• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Reason
  • Dark

• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Survive

• The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • Nation
  • Capacity
  • Minorities

• There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Unity
  • Nation
  • Survive