Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
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I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
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While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
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Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
