Wole Soyinka Quotes

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

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TruthPowerLieControlDomination

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

Jim Harrison

SimpleEatingEndDieReasonEat

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

Jeremy Rifkin

TechnologyNewUnderstandDNANeeds

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMeWorldChampionMy Life

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.

Jeff Fahey

WorkGoOverYearsSeeI See

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

John Ross Bowie

TimeTheatreGoLineBottomIntense

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

Mary Ellen Mark

HeartSoulPhotographerAlwaysWhere

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

Mike Weir

MoneyGreenGolfI CanPlayJacket

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Michael W. Smith

GodTimeMeKingsReasonFavor

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

Logic

FamilyFatherBrotherSisterSong

'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.

Jason Mitchell

StoryChoiceKnowAnythingSomething

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

Clayton M. Christensen

MeHouseWhiteLostWashingtonSee

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

Ciara

WomenGirlTimeTogetherMeYou

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