Wole Soyinka Quotes
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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All of these things mean everything to me because without that I wouldn't be standing here without arts education, and it's something that is universal -- and vaguely political, but not really.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
