Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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America can't beat anyone anymore.
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When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
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To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
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Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
