Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
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I always played to win.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I want to serve the people.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
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The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
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My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.
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It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
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Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.
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For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
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I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.
