Wole Soyinka Quotes

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Wole Soyinka

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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

Amity Gaige

PeopleReadingBloodKindUnderstand

Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside.

Tom Douglas

InsideOutsideRareDeliciousFlavor

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Mike Davidson

WorryFirstDecadeContentWebOnly

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.

Jonathan Groff

CommunityPeopleLookingFeelGay

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

Diane Greene

FearPeopleGivingTalkingWeekShy

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

Claudia Lee

SongMeaningArtistDifferentVery

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

Brendan Myers

WorkNatureLiveLonelinessWorld

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

Mariel Hemingway

LifeExperienceMeChurchMy Life

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

Marly Youmans

PersonalServantYourSpouse

I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn't mean you can just make inaccurate statements.

Lexi Alexander

YouUnderstandMeanRealizeHard

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

Kris Kristofferson

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