Wole Soyinka Quotes

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

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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

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Important
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • World
  • Positive

• Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Thinking
  • Forever
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Passion

• 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.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• My imagination creates my reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Creates

• All empires are created of blood and fire.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Fire
  • Blood
  • Empires

• 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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joke
  • Finger
  • Flash

• Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

  

  Homer
  • House
  • Forget
  • Comrade

• 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.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Focus
  • Reason
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Personality
  • Hollywood
  • Films

• It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.

  

  Steve Reich
  • Energy
  • Artist
  • Enjoy

• Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.

  

  Dick Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Learned

• In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Occupation

• The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Death
  • Iraq
  • Occupation

• For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Occupation
  • Missions
  • Deuces