Jakaya Kikwete Quotes
At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
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Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother’s gesture.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.
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Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.
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We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.
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My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
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I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
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At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
