Chris Abani Quotes

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Chris Abani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: December 27, 1966

Topics

MotherParentsSheTwoLivedFoot

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

Jerry Herman

LoveDieSeeingWantKindOut

I don't have a journal; I write music.

Michael J. Willett

MusicJournalWriteI Write

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

Ana Beatriz Barros

BackGoWantTomatoBrazilCouch

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

Sonny Mehta

ThinkThoughtNeverUsefulWould

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

SmileBehaviorYouBadPlayHuman

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

PowerBrainLaborWayCheapCompete

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ProblemVoteOutDemocratsGetFine

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Michael McCaul

ThinkPlaceHandBecomeAttackBeen

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

Jared Diamond

StarsStartIceStopDinosaursSome

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Dorothy Hamill

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Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Dean Cain

GodDecisionPeopleFreeBelieve

I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.

Chen-Ning Yang

MyselfThinkAmericaLoseBadWhole

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