Ben Okri Quotes
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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You have to open up on stage.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.
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The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
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I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.
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I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
