George Ayittey Quotes

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

George Ayittey

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• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Dance

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Explore

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • True
  • Sometimes

• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Wind

• The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Faith

• What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Kind
  • Corrupt

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Past
  • Democracy

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Golf
  • Boring
  • Bread

• I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Man
  • Leader

• I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Respect
  • Focus
  • Marriage

• I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Game
  • Driving
  • Short

• Wonder is the basis of worship.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Wonder
  • Worship

• Could this approach to public health have something to do with the fact that the incarceration rate in Norway is 71/ 100,000, in the Netherlands 81/ 100,000, and the US 781/ 100,000, while the crime rate in those countries is much lower than in ours, and the cost of medical care about half? Seventy percent of prisoners in California spent time in foster care while growing up. The United States spends $ 84 billion per year to incarcerate people at approximately $ 44,000 per prisoner; the northern European countries a fraction of that amount. Instead, they invest in helping parents to raise their children in safe and predictable surroundings. Their academic test scores and crime rates seem to reflect the success of those investments.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Investments

• My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

  

  Catherine of Aragon
  • Enough
  • Surprise
  • Intention

• Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • God

• I like to always be as productive as possible.

  

  Jeffree Star
  • Like
  • Possible
  • Productive

• Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

  

  George Ayittey