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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the ...

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you ...

You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a ...

He was a man. Handsome as sin, arrogant as fuck, and in need of at least one woman to prove he wasn't God's gift to ...

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually ...

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to ...

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can ...

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just ...

Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty ...

Death was unpleasant, but it was a familiar and tolerable ache in his chest.

Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding ...

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza.""Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more ...

Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of ...

May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till ...

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. ...

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as the death exists.

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to ...

What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every ...

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is ...

Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.

I once lost something in precious in this place.But I think it's by losing things...... that we grow up to be adults.

L-EVELSO-FV-ARYINGE-MOTIONSBEING IN LOVE IS ALWAYS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP!

Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great ...

I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that ...

L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a ...

Asami and Fumi: It's my first time ever listening to yoh sing. He's good at it.Asaoka: He's so deceitful, training all alone in secret in ...

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

There is little required to encourage another; the adventure it inspires is your reward.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Gossip is the swiftest bird alive," Amonos said darkly."Yes," said E'sinea, turning to view his surroundings. "I should like one day to catch Gossip and ...

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace.

You really know how to screw up a perfect night, don't you?""You thought it was perfect, huh? Does that mean you had a good time?""I ...

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it ...

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Eraritjaritjaka albutjikaNkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for homeIn the heat of the sun to return home ... 'Ulamba ...

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against ...

Beauty brings warmth, elegance and grandeur. Something in our souls longs deeply for that graciousness and delight. When we advert to the presence of beauty, ...

That men will perish and women will rule the earth?" Hannah replied. "Sorry, wrong number. For that request, you'll need to ring the department in ...

There are forces.

A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your ...

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you ...

There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. ...

I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?

I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their ...

But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal ...

This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is ...

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - ...

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to ...

If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that ...

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, ...

Whoever coined the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' was an idiot.Absence makes a bitch go crazy.

Because those four days in the mountains, they changed us. I gave you a piece of me. And you must have given me a piece ...

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, ...

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to ...

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey ... ' - ...

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look ...

I would not want to be a politician ... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and ...

We also don't always know what we want. And in those cases it can actually make us worse off because it's actually easier to figure ...

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School ...

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and ...

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put ...

Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving ...

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my ...

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

We'll get there!

In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No ...

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a ...

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think ...

You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption ...

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord ...

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other ...