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Wole Soyinka Quotes

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 13, 1934

Topics

Education Who Most Lacking Those

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Good Best Day World Believe You

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

John Hanning Speke

Lion More Seen Seldom Much Heard

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Jennifer Nettles

Love Speak Plant Year Go Want

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

Melissa Rosenberg

Women Great Action Think Thinking

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Beginning Bible End Boy Quote Altar

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

Time Fighting Same Resources Years

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

Shoes School Feel Easy Back Middle

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Time Amazing Exploration Down Now

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

Leader Data You Clear Valuable Most

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

America Now Meet Class Right Middle

Writer's block is a fiction.

Fiction Writer Block

I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

Fight Winning Drive Roof Through

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