Wole Soyinka Quotes
I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
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I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
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I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
