Ben Okri Quotes
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
