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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My favorite show is 'Parks and Recreation.'
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Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.
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Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
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At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
