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Ben Okri Quotes

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success Beauty Myself I Am People

I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.

Animal Me Stand Know Missing Going

For guys, I don't think you're ever ready... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.'

God Today Time Day Wake Up Think

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

Walk Walls Horse Snowboarding Always

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Great Simple Year Easy Place First

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Live Motto Amazing Chocolate Never

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Stupid Think American Need Myth Any

When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.

Secrets Keep Crap

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

Women People Color Go Way Out

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Die Suicide Civilizations

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Anne Hutchinson

I Am You Things Answer Here Charge

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

War Efficiency Nation Venture Would

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Life Good God Trust Space Seed

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