Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
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I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
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In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
