George Ayittey Quotes
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
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In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
