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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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Making music with people is a very intimate process.
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.
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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.
