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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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
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My parents did not care whether I saw an opera or understood a statue; all that could be considered in time, in the future, for operas and statues belonged to urban culture, and my kinfolks said any person with any kind of background could acquire a city civilization, but that few city people could ever learn the culture of a rural country.
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You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
