Ben Okri Quotes

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Ben Okri

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Community
  • Best

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Movie
  • Like

• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Face
  • Overcoming

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Cool

• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Good
  • Child

• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

  

  Khalid
  • American
  • Athlete

• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Night
  • New York
  • Airplane

• Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Giving
  • Heaven

• I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Singing

• The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

  

  Bono U2
  • Environment
  • Oil
  • Minerals

• I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

  

  Ben Okri
  • People
  • Success
  • Fighting