George Ayittey Quotes
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
George Ayittey
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
Dan Pink
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
Gael Garcia Bernal
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
Walter Murch
Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
Pamela Anderson
A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
Samuel Johnson
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
Meghan O'Rourke
Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.
Jason Boyd
Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
George Ayittey
