Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
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All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
