Wole Soyinka Quotes
The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.Wole Soyinka
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith -
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett -
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan -
I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
Padgett Powell -
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
Rand Paul
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey -
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
Tariq Ramadan -
I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
Idris Elba -
My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
Ted Koppel -
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
Gavin Newsom -
To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
Irving Babbitt -
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde -
If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
Adena Friedman -
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
Luke Evans -
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.
Doug Liman
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. Blige -
Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
Nicholas James Murphy -
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben Jonson -
California, California Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways California, from my home I'll be leaving
Chuck Berry -
The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.
Wole Soyinka