Cyprian Ekwensi Quotes
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.Cyprian Ekwensi
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet -
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles -
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
Ted Cruz -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
Wael Ghonim
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
Orhan Pamuk -
How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler -
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
Caio Fonseca -
When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
Idris Elba -
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
Hanna Rosin -
The truth sustains me.
Pat Nixon
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird -
When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
Dan Gable -
One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
Cara Black -
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
Laura Moser -
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
Yvonne De Carlo -
Few people know how to be old.
Maggie Kuhn
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.
Benjamin Crump -
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
Kim Harrison -
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher -
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian Ekwensi