Wole Soyinka Quotes
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.
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I work in L.A. from time to time.
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I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.
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I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
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If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
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They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there's a need to change the schedule.
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My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
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I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
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I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
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When it gets to the knockout stages of Europe, we all know anything can happen.
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Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
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One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
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Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
