Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.
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What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.
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Life is a school of probability.
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This is what we propose now to the Treasury: either the property owners expropriate themselves, or we summon the masses of war veterans to march against these obstacles and overthrow them.
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
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My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.
