Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
Rand Paul -
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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.
Gavin Newsom -
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Val Kilmer -
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
Aaron McGruder
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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.
Pankaj Mishra -
Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
Ram Charan -
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
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.
Maeve Binchy -
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Kacey Musgraves
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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.
Rand Paul -
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
Kate Fleetwood -
Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
Floyd Abrams -
It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
Olly Murs -
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
Irving Kirsch -
One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
Xochi Birch
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Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina Jolie -
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Paul Davies -
I didn't hit it well today but I still managed to shoot 2-under, which I think is a testament to how well I've been playing recently
Cristie Kerr -
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
Wole Soyinka