Wole Soyinka Quotes
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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He just gotta give me that look When he give that look Then the panties comin off off
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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At 6 foot 7 Peter Crouch isn't as tall as he looks.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty Martin Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant to the director was to make the collection available to interested people.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
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I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
