John Dramani Mahama Quotes
I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.
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I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.
