Wole Soyinka Quotes
I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
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When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
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I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.