Wole Soyinka Quotes

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

Wole Soyinka

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CapitalismFaceSeeingWantAfrica

I enjoy tequila, which has a strange effect on people and makes parties more fun than warm white wine.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

FunPeopleWineWarmEnjoyWhite

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

Roy Romer

EducationCommitmentDeepRealGuy

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Douglas Coupland

MoneyPeopleThinkRealizeGoing

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

Denise Van Outen

TrainingSchoolMeHolidaysFeel

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

Donald E. Westlake

HopeTimeLookSenseNoteAgain

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

Annette Bening

BusinessYouNeedAlwaysStability

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Anthony Fauci

WomanManChildYouCountryUp

When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.

Allison Tolman

ChildrenTimeSchoolCityFallOut

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

Peter Finch

SuccessSwimmingPoolSwimming Pool

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

Peter O'Toole

YouSomethingThenJoyfully

My ideal Friday and Saturday evening would be... Friday to go out and have dinner with my girlfriends. Saturday night, I would stay in. I would have somebody cook for me out there because I do not cook very well.

Nina Agdal

MeDinnerNightEveningFridayGo

The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.

Mystikal

BestRapperCompeteBounceAble

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