Dambisa Moyo Quotes
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.Dambisa Moyo
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
Yoweri Museveni -
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
Imogen Heap -
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi -
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal -
What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
Felicia Day -
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco -
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie -
I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
Bebe Rexha -
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
Walter Cronkite -
I am a Zionist.
Yair Lapid -
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
Ram Dass
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell -
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser -
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
Hans Vestberg -
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins
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I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.
Marlee Matlin -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
M. Stanton Evans -
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
Dambisa Moyo