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"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."
"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."
"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."
"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."
"The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!"
"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."
Explore more quotes by Ben Okri
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"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."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."
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