Ben Okri Quotes
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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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.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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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.
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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.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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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.
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
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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.
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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.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Family is always the most important part.
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
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When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
