Wole Soyinka Quotes

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

Wole Soyinka

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I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

John Cameron Mitchell

ComfortBecomeOutMonkTakeCome

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

John B. S. Haldane

SocialismProblemSizeBiologist

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

John Drinkwater

BestGovernmentPeopleSayKind

At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

Andy Dunn

TiredShoppingBelieveHumanStores

Disunity costs votes.

John Major

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We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.

Michael Avenatti

ViewSexCountryEuropeDifferent

I remember looking to McDonald's, and, my God, they have 13,000 restaurants in the United States. Well, we have almost a couple thousand Chipotles. What if Pizzeria Locale is a few thousand, and Shod. All of a sudden, we're bigger than McDonald's in the U.S. I mean, that's not an unreasonable way to think about this.

Steve Ells

GodLookingThinkRememberMcDonald

Sometimes, I remember, for action continuity or to get all warmed up for an action scene before giving a close-up or saying a dialogue, I would do push-ups. I didn't know any other way to get my body mechanism going.

Sidharth Malhotra

ActionSayingGivingRememberBody

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

Rob Bell

WorkKindnessChangeBeautifulWorld

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Mickey Mantle

BaseballI CanPlayKnowBallOnly

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

Louise Nurding

FootballMeYouSexWillWay

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

Jason Blum

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