Wole Soyinka Quotes

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• 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.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Day
  • Car
  • Tribe

• I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Things
  • Needed
  • Challenged

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Solution

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Thought

• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Ego
  • Point

• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Health
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Books
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Wealth

• If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Help
  • You
  • Got

• I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Women
  • California

• You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Play
  • Artist
  • Risk

• We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

  

  Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Crown
  • Adoration
  • Unbelief

• Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Culture
  • Atmosphere