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Wole Soyinka Quotes

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Present Trying Movement Sure Just

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art Chaos Triumph Over

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

John G. D. Clark

Look Evolution Human Turn Tell Us

Turn your scars into stars.

Robert H. Schuller

Stars Scars Turn Your

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

Success People Brain Go Movies True

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Future Past Think You Comfort Young

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Moment Appreciate Injuries You Whole

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

Soledad O'Brien

Opportunity Black America Race

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Father Perfect Always English He

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

History Experience Powerful First

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

Goals Classic Score Who Could Also

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Time Travel Law Burden Now Possible

My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie 'Chavez.' And at the same time, it was when all the bailouts were happening.

Father Time Brother Same Starting

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