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Ben Okri Quotes

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: March 15, 1959

Topics

Beautiful Best You Too Much Growing

I'm very blessed and appreciative of everything that's happened, and I'm just working hard for more opportunities to come.

Jessica Sanchez

Blessed Opportunities Working Hard

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Opportunity Innovation Best Grow

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

Anjelica Huston

Work Beautiful Great Time Weather

I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.

Fashion Believe Forward Feel Way

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Me Evil Brand Sounds

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

Parents Moments You Human Heroes

I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Heart Think Kind Nerd Everybody

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

Power Religion Endurance Go Egypt

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

Music Voice Listen Blend Fit

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

Worth Flattery Nothing More Than

I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.

Love Winning Early Person Up Those

I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.

Chris Meledandri

Culture Day School Out Candidate

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