Ben Okri Quotes
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.Ben Okri
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't care if I never see Texas again.
Rafer Johnson -
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman -
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
Maisie Williams -
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
Felicia Day -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
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.
Carlo Rubbia -
I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
Samira Wiley -
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker -
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
Oliver Sim The xx
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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.
Adam Draper -
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.
Olivier Martinez -
Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Francesca da Rimini -
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.
Kate Bernheimer -
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
Randy Falco
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If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
Kathleen Sebelius -
For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
Laura Prepon -
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.
Leelee Sobieski -
When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.
Mickey Hart -
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.
James Buchan -
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Ben Okri