Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Uzodinma Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1982

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LoveLiveMottoHateExcellence

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

Jodie Foster

TimeMeProcessLongTakeCasting

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Joel A. Barker

PeopleMeWorldSurpriseCreatePay

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Jennifer Egan

GoodTimeBestBookLongLong Time

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Steven Pinker

LifeGoodCultureGuiltIntellectual

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Tony Snow

PeopleQuietNo SenseTellSense

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Rodrigo Rato

WorldBecomeOilEconomyThreat

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

Jason Aaron

TryingCreateTellJustStories

I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

Jason Segel

MoneyKnowRelationshipsReasonTurn

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Josh Radnor

SpacePeopleExpandAllowOurLot

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Dick Cavett

TimeEyeSeeActNastyJust

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Dick Cheney

HomeStruggleBeginningKnowStrike

We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.

Colin Cooper

BestTrainingSchoolMeAppreciate

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