Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
