Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I am just one human being.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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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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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.
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God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
