Wole Soyinka Quotes

I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

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• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • May
  • Movie
  • Today

• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Child

• I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Camera
  • Seeing

• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

  

  Rain
  • Inspiration
  • Source
  • Tune

• I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Always
  • Maybe

• And learn the luxury of doing good.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good

• The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Moral
  • Judge

• 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Bridge

• The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

  

  Donatella Versace

• When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Interesting

• I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Time
  • Long

• I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Bad
  • Funny

• Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Confidence

• I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.

  

  Colin Hanks

• If I get a chance to dress up, I really go for it.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Up

• So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Individual
  • Conclusion

• Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

  

  Wole Soyinka