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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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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Crime is increasingTrigger happy policingPanic is spreadingGod know where we're headingOh, make me wanna hollerThey don't understand.
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...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.
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I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.
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From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
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At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
