Jakaya Kikwete Quotes
I don’t know how to get the money but if the radar is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid … They cannot take money from a poor country.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.
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There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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I don’t know how to get the money but if the radar is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid … They cannot take money from a poor country.
