Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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The ultimate comfort zone is within.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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Death is the ultimate negative.
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The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
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Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
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The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.
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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.
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I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
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Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
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... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.
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Visualize your ultimate goal and then do the work to make it happen.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.
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My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.
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This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
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There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
