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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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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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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If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
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I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.
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You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
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I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
