Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan -
Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
Rachel Nichols -
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
Carlos Slim -
ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
Jack Keane -
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
Walter Payton -
The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
Eden Hazard
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
Campbell Scott -
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau -
I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
Ram Dass -
I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
Taliesin -
He left a corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Lord Byron
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
J. Arthur Thomson -
For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
Patrick Kane -
I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.
Ayelet Zurer -
Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.
Ludwig von Mises -
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
Wole Soyinka