Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.
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I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
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People who can't kiss had everything given to them.
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
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People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
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No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
