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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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
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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.
