"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."

-- Philip Emeagwali

“There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ... but there's one little rub. They forget that advertising is persuasion, and persuasion is not a science, but an art. Advertising is the art of persuasion.”
“Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", January 20, 2006.
“Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.”
“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”
“If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.”
“How can you truly know what success is, if youâ€™ve never experienced failure?”
“The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.”
“Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.”

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