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.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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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.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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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.
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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.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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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.
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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.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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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.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
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Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
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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.
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I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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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.
