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

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Ben Okri

#Fighting Quotes #People Quotes #Share Quotes

“Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration, partly through art, it was a perfect way to start. I love to interrogate through image - or pose questions through a subversion of said image - and we came up with a visual that caused quite a stir and went on to pick up a Design and Art Direction award.”
“You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”
“sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”
“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”

Source : "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.
“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”
“I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.”

Source : "My Letter to the Internet" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.
“Facts speak louder than statistics.”

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