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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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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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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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
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I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
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We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.
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What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
