Ory Okolloh Quotes
I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
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We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean?
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There is no more embarrassing thing in my life that the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
