Wole Soyinka Quotes
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
Dan Webster -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
Talulah Riley -
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold -
I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
Quavo Migos -
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls -
So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
Edmund Morgan -
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
Harold Prince -
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
Whitney Houston -
If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.
Nicki Minaj -
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
Vaclav Smil -
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
R. S. Thomas -
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
Oscar Wilde
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I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.
Jim Gaffigan -
England picked a rookie coach to coach a team at the World Cup.
Eddie Jones -
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Neil Peart Rush -
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
Carine Roitfeld -
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson -
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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