Ben Okri Quotes
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.Ben Okri
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland -
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Dance should mean something to you.
Damian Woetzel -
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. Smith -
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
Gary Ross -
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman -
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
Vincent Cassel -
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Omar Bongo -
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Sam Harris -
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Ada Yonath -
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
Zac Efron
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
Naftali Bennett -
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
George Dzundza -
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali -
In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.
Patrick Pichette -
I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
Bill Vaughan -
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
Ben Okri