Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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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.
Tasha Smith -
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.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga -
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon -
Defending peace is the duty of all.
Fidel Castro -
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
Patricia Heaton
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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.
Jack Canfield -
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes -
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.
Garrett Hedlund -
My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
Wallace Shawn -
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
Nawal El Saadawi
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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.
Kangana Ranaut -
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.
Amy Goodman -
Virtue is not always amiable.
John Adams -
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.
Jerry Seinfeld -
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
Sting The Police -
I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.
Brandon Stanton
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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
Percy Sledge -
If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I -
When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.
David Jeremiah -
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.
Jack Kingston -
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala