Ben Okri Quotes
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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I don't really yell at people.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?
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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
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The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
