Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.
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Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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All empires are created of blood and fire.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
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Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
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The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
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Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
