Wole Soyinka Quotes

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Image

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
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• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Risk
  • Laugh
  • Looking

• Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Long
  • Father
  • Strong

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• I love my country so much.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Country
  • Love
  • Much

• It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Space
  • Perception

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

• P. 27.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations… If the gangrene is not stopped I can see nothing but insurrection of the blacks against the whites.

  

  John Adams
  • Country
  • Mad
  • Slavery

• I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

  

  Mehcad Brooks
  • Work
  • Law

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• To me, comedy is a game.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Game
  • Comedy

• Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Money
  • Party
  • Teen

• There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • World
  • Die
  • Worst

• Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Problem
  • Mythology