Ben Okri Quotes
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love - it really starts with being honest with yourself.
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
