Wole Soyinka Quotes
Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.
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The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
