Ben Okri Quotes
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Quotes to Explore
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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You have to approach every day and try and get better on and off the field.
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During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
