Wole Soyinka Quotes
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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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 future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
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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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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
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I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.
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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
