Wole Soyinka Quotes
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
