Ory Okolloh Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I don't want to get fat.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.
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Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
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I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.'
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All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.
