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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.


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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.


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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
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Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
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If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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