Ory Okolloh Quotes
I'd like to see technology to move beyond the hype and be considered part of infrastructure... the way you see access to water. I would like it to move away from apps and mobile money. So that everyone has their TV and their Wi-Fi, and it's just ubiquitous. I think that's where we should be headed.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
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Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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I'd like to see technology to move beyond the hype and be considered part of infrastructure... the way you see access to water. I would like it to move away from apps and mobile money. So that everyone has their TV and their Wi-Fi, and it's just ubiquitous. I think that's where we should be headed.
