Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
Taylor Negron
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
Fabiola Gianotti
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Aaron Sorkin
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
Taylor Lautner
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
Frances McDormand
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
Chris Lilley
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
Karen DeCrow
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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
David Rittenhouse
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
Charles James
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala