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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#fingertips #makes #something #theater #tingle

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#best #come #first #first of all #i

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#become #death #fences #get #higher

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#am #convince #dark #else #ever

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#day #every #every day #exactly #hoped

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #beings #brad #brad pitt #capable

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. ↗

— David Frum

#conservatism #constrained #country #desperate #economic

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#insane #logical #most #person #sometimes