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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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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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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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.
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Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
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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.
