Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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 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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People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
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I have never been a star; I'm just an old character bag.
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I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
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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.
