Wole Soyinka Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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It gives the young men some assurance that things are going to be maintained.
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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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This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.
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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves.
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When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
