Ben Okri Quotes

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love day trips around L.A. I'm a huge Disneyland junkie - I go almost every other weekend.

Jessica Lowndes

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We are conscious of the need to maintain good relations with the United States. We have a border of more than 3,000 kilometers; more than 12 million Mexicans live in the United States. It is our main economic-commercial partner.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

John Mackey

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Kids are anarchy writ large.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

Michael Avenatti

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I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.

America Ferrera

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Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

Tracy Morgan

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If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Tomi Adeyemi

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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Tom Cruise

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I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

Mary Roach

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There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'

Michelle Borth

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The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I grew up - my father didn't have a job, but there weren't too many people who did have jobs.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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