Ben Okri Quotes
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
Ben Okri
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
Banksy
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
Gary Johnson
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
K. D. Lang
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
Callum Keith Rennie
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
Kate Upton
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
Oliver E. Williamson
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe
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I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
Ramez Naam
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
Vince Flynn
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.
Eden Hazard
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There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
Kara Walker
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
Olivier Martinez
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers-Black the gate leaps open, I sing;How did we live here?
Paul Celan
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
Ben Okri
