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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One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
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Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.
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Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
