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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any… — Bashar al-Assad
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much… — Leslie Marmon Silko
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child. — Gloria Estefan
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are… — Aristotle
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are… — Aristotle
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. — Saint Augustine
If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the… — George W. Bush
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's… — J. G. Ballard
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary… — Edward Abbey
If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them… — Frederic Bastiat
The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet… — Isaac Asimov
What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people. — Woody Allen
Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't… — Elliott Smith
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased… — Stephan Pastis
I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or… — Randall Munroe
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears… — Booker T. Washington
I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to… — Nneka
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison
I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm… — Kesha
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have… — Paul Weller
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't… — Tony Kushner
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.… — Tony Kushner
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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