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 confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams -
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
Vincent Van Gogh -
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.
Natsuki Takaya -
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
Wole Soyinka