Wole Soyinka Quotes
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.Wole Soyinka
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland -
The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
Rachel Weisz -
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
Karen Finerman -
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone -
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
A. A. Milne
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
Pamela Anderson -
I like the work that I get to do.
Famke Janssen -
I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
D. B. Sweeney -
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
Halsey -
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale -
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
Waylon Jennings -
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
J. G. Ballard -
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
Nafisa Joseph -
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe -
The only weights I lift are my dogs.
Olivia Newton-John -
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
Dan Webster
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The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
Marianne Williamson -
Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.
Bela H. Banathy -
No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.
Brian Urquhart -
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
Wole Soyinka