Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.

Uzodinma Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WarLawLaw EnforcementPovertyOwn

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Jesse Jackson

CommunityBuildUsedKnowsHeHow

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

John Fogerty

BecomeMoreAlwaysMusicianMuch

I think that's the biggest misconception when people want to live a more clean, cruelty-free life is, 'I can't do that. It's going to be so hard.' But I say do some research. You'd be surprised!

Torrey DeVitto

LifeLivePeopleResearchThinkYou

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Rose Tremain

WorkLoveYouKindAffairFinished

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

Ron Howard

CuriosityThinkYouFollowYour

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Michelle Shocked

FaithSoulDevilYouFailSell

Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I'm in outer space. That's always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space.

Ming-Na Wen

SpaceDreamLovelyOuter SpaceOut

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

Judy Sheindlin

ChildrenLittle ThingsThings Happen

I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly.

Josie Bissett

ChildrenDecisionBestUglyMindGo

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

Jason Wiles

DayClothesEvery DayVillageStreet

In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.

Jose Reyes

BusinessBaseballMeUnderstand

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

David Shields

MusicArtPaintingForwardRoyalty

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