George Ayittey Quotes
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
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Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones – his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them – two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
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I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.
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What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
