George Ayittey Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
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You can fire your revenues by firing your people.
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Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'
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Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.