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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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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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
