Wole Soyinka Quotes
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.Wole Soyinka
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis -
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
Walter Dean Myers -
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines de La Fressange
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Lana Del Rey -
I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
Anton Zaslavski -
There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
Eddy Grant -
You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Obie Trice -
I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
FKA twigs
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
Alexander Pope -
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch -
I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.
Brandon Stanton -
I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.
Jenny Frost -
To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.
Rita Ora -
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.
Jan Schakowsky
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Stand by those who stand by you.
Mac Miller -
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
Daniel Webster -
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
Mark Skousen -
My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.
Tom Hanks -
I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
Mark Steyn -
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.
Wole Soyinka