Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Twitter needs to become more of a platform on the web. If Twitter went away today, people would just turn to Facebook. If Facebook went away, people would start screaming - it's so universal.
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Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.
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I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or anything like that, but it certainly has been a part of my career.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
