Ben Okri Quotes
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.
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God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Every time you go on a set, it's a whole different world, and I love that.
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I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
