Wole Soyinka Quotes
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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You want to know what scares people? Success.
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You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.
