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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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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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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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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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.
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I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
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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.
