Wole Soyinka Quotes

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

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• I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Acting
  • Busy

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • School
  • Fight
  • Pay

• I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Years

• Strong families are vital to strong societies.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Strong
  • Families
  • VItal

• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I train to be the champion.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Champion
  • Train

• Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Home
  • Power
  • Success

• You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Future
  • Humanity
  • Intelligent

• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  

  Quintilian
  • Pride

• He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Career
  • Player
  • Larry Brown

• I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Failing

• I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Style

• In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Musicians
  • Poets
  • The Doors

• Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Failure
  • Criticism
  • Battle

• There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Decision
  • Responsible
  • Connections

• Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.

  

  Daniel Lanois
  • People
  • Design
  • Hell

• Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Responsible
  • Degradation