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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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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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
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Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
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What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
