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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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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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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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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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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High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.
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I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
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To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
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The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
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My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.
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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.
