Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

Joe Green

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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

John Burroughs

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I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.

Sonia Rykiel

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Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most Americans and worsens economic inequality.

Tom Steyer

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I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

Michael McCaul

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Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

Luka Sulic

MusicLongChoiceBoringAlways

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Jonathan Ive

TrustBestMoneyPeopleYouGoal

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

Chris Jordan

ChangeOutUsWhoNeedsPublic

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

Ariel Winter

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My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Anthony Pratt

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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

Sylvia Earle

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