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Chinua Achebe Quotes

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life People Growing Up Think Back

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Marriage Wife Questions Nothing Your

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Melina Mercouri

Things Marbles Such Things

Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.

Maximillian Degenerez

Life Challenge Dance Yourself Glory

Politics abhors a vacuum.

Politics Vacuum Abhors

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Business Doing Plans Group Build

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Change People Law Democracy Powerful

Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man's comedy: they're not crazy; they're not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum.

Funny Women Past Man Crazy Comedy

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Dikembe Mutombo

Mother Food School Start Year You

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Christine Keeler

Hand Missing Knew His Were October

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Bradley A. Blakeman

Government Financial Tax Crisis Big

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

Culture Know Nothing Embrace Why

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

American Comedy Peak Just Stuff TV

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