Buchi Emecheta Quotes

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Buchi Emecheta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: July 21, 1944 - January 25, 2017

Topics

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When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

Joey Alexander

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I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

Jenifer Lewis

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Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

John Zorn

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Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.

John Skipper

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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

John Polanyi

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When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.

Aly Raisman

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When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

Robert T. Bakker

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

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During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

Michael Tubbs

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I also think that I had great mechanics.

Dennis Eckersley

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing

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2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.

Chris Larsen

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