Jakaya Kikwete Quotes
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.
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U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
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Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.
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The presidency is not an office job.
