Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator-a weapon, first and foremost, to overthrow colonialism and imperialism and to assist total African independence and unity.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.
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To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator-a weapon, first and foremost, to overthrow colonialism and imperialism and to assist total African independence and unity.
