George Ayittey Quotes
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.
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Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
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I do most of the cooking in my head.
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Radio is the death and life of Africa.
