John Dramani Mahama Quotes
And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Love is the one wild card.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
