Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: September 15, 1977

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I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

Joe Torre

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People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

Mayte Garcia

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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

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I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Dick Dale

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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Doug Liman

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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

China Mieville

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I'm an actress, so I hope I'm good at it.

Alice Eve

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I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Pratibha Patil

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Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

Peter Capaldi

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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

Pele

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Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring.

Tyler Cowen

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Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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