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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
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You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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[When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930 -
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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