Wole Soyinka Quotes

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Wole Soyinka

• Different
• Wish
• Kind
• Artist
• Frank

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

  

  Beck
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Jeans

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Forever

• I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • God
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • People
  • Wish

• As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

  

  Bjork
  • Life
  • Different
  • Together

• Lensko is a friend of mine with a great talent! The way he progresses his tracks is so unique, just the way he puts everything together is so different from what I usually hear nowadays in the EDM-world.

  

  Alan Walker
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Wish
  • Brother

• To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Up
  • Different

• Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• The Ting Tings have been a huge hit in my family. I have two young daughters, and both of them love that record, so I pretty much have to listen to that ten times a day.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Family
  • Pretty

• You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Design

• Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Death
  • Living
  • Intermission

• There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Kind