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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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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Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
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The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
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In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
