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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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you hoped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.
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Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.
