Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.

Uzodinma Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

Joe Lo Truglio

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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Joe Lonsdale

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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Steve Martin

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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Jonathan Sacks

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I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

Jonathan Glazer

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There is a level of intimacy in sharing the foods that have shaped me.

Antoni Porowski

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Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

William Gaddis

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Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

Suzanne Brockmann

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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

Peter Bergen

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It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a little bit of parsley. Diversity happens because the people that are telling the stories - the writers, directors, storytellers - want to tell their story.

Kelvin Yu

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There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are trying to evolve the arts in new and innovative ways.

Justin Peck

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