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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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
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I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
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Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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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.
