Chinua Achebe Quotes

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

Topics

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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.

Megan Boone

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Just like I am a food snob, I am also a rabbinical snob.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Good people climb quickly - just like in a company.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Mike Oldfield

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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Mo Ibrahim

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I like when people take chances.

Josh Homme

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Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Drew Carey

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

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I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.

Rick Santorum

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Cities are about juxtaposition.

Richard Rogers

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