Ben Okri Quotes
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.
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My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.
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Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
