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Chinua Achebe Quotes

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Children Me Protect Interest

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

Work Mind Society Think Picture

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

John Paul Jones

Wisdom Effort Bear Human Reason Us

It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.

Myself School Me Doing Remember

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

Depression Go Years See Normal

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Women Age Think Lovers Up Attract

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

Government Control Looking You Size

I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!

Love Home Cooking Think Back Pretty

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

Time Wife New York People Me Look

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

Diane Hendricks

Work Father Men Parents Believe

When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there's risks that you don't. And I think I'm interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.

Music Risks Think You Know My Own

I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together.

William McDonough

Great Together Value Sun Wind Free

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Teacher Group Unions Own Defense

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