Ben Okri Quotes

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HumanityMeanHumanFictionVery

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

Jhonen Vasquez

ExperienceGrowing UpBrainAesthetic

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Ann Coulter

TodayImpossiblePoliticalAmerica

Change your routine regularly because your body gets used it, and it won't benefit you after a while. Mix it up - legs, arms and butt - so you work your total body and stay balanced.

Stella Maxwell

WorkChangeYouBodyRoutineLegs

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

Ruggiero Ricci

GoodMusicPeopleBadI CanSound

In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary McCarthy

ViolenceForgetWho

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Common

WorkMyselfBestQualityCareer

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Confucius

FriendshipLoveGoodHomeTime

Growing up, we had folk records.

Alison Krauss

Growing UpGrowingUpRecordsFolk

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.

William Goldman

ExperienceThinkYouPieHollywood

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

Sharon Osbourne

GoodLuckySurgeonVeryCosmetic

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

Sebastian Thrun

CultureSimpleI AmMeetingsEasy

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

Richard Branson

StarsExperienceSpaceMeImpossible

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