Ben Okri Quotes
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I still keep my accent.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
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When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
