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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Whether Think Usually Right
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Person Mouth Puts Feats
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Everything Worry Work Best
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Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Event Tomorrow Yesterday Happen
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Morning Revolution System Believe
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Right Believe Can Wether
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Designs Looks Feels Works
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Man Than Thinks Living
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Spend Energy Problems Trying
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money Betterment Life Capital
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.

Wait Details Matter Right
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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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For Nigeria to make meaningful progress, our leaders have to be more interested in the price of leadership than in the perks of leadership.

Progress Leader Price Perk
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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Its mental slavery to allow foreign media dictate what we think about Nigeria & her institutions. They cant love Nigeria more than Nigerians

Mental Media Dictate Love
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Know Time Consequences Correct
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Laziness Breeds Humors Blood
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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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The more you attack your predecessor the higher the bar is set for you. Know how slippery a road is before knocking those who slipped on it.

Attack Higher Road Bar
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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.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Authentic Capacity Create Endure
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Beauty Fighting More Myself
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.

Show Tyrant Much World
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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I'm never shaken or stirred.

Never Shaken Stirred
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Lonely Boring Own Crowed
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.
Learn Continually More Thing
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Spilled Cruelty Necessary Disharmony
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