Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
Parker Harris
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
La'Porsha Renae
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
Gary Numan
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
Tahj Mowry
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
Edmund Phelps
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
Vanessa Bayer
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
Tamron Hall
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
Kate Klise
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Flossin' is a term like when you're 'fly.' It's like, 'I floss. I walk around with my head up; no one can touch me.'
Kendra Wilkinson
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You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.
Ram Kapoor
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Fortunately for whining snotface, the party itself goes with a bang. She enters looking every inch the cosseted flesh-waste she is, and her and her nauseating idiot scumbag friends celebrate into the night: dancing, shrieking, acting like pillocks, and generally making you feel like getting down on your knees and praying for a nuclear holocaust.
Charlie Brooker
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This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
Nick Moran
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My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
