Wole Soyinka Quotes

You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

Wole Soyinka

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Real
  • Love
  • Connection

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• If you have to forecast, forecast often.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • You
  • Forecast

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Imagination

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Think

• The world is as it should be.

  

  Omar Epps
  • World
  • Should

• I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Child

• Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Model
  • Models

• I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Interested
  • Don't Know
  • Agnostic

• Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Humans

• If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma

• You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • Comedy
  • Accept
  • Embarrassed

• If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Needs
  • My Life
  • Steps

• You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Humans
  • Creative
  • Natural