George Ayittey Quotes
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.
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It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
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The European Union is here to stay.
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I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.
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In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
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In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.
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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
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I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.
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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.
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Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
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I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
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The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
