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Ben Okri Quotes

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Friend Home You Person Been

Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of the rock n' roll experience. However, that rebellion - the outgrowth of a youthful search for independence and identity - doesn't always take the same form.

Experience Identity Key Independence

You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.'

Walk Men Door You Argument Run

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

Stephan Jenkins

Share Hopes Insecurities Fears

I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.

Good Music Style Loved Kind Street

There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

Good Ideas Media You Wall Beyond

I don't read bad mail. I don't save mail. I'm too old to read negative things.

Negative Bad Old Mail Things Read

David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton.

Underdog First Film Hour Novel His

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

Heart Joy Tears Unexpected Tide Now

When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.

You Powerful Nobody First Out Bring

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

Life Live I Am My Life Stability Am

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Science Wait World Tools Living Out

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

Profession Philosopher

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