George Ayittey Quotes
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.George Ayittey
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
Ted Deutch -
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
Vikas Swarup -
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice -
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
Laraine Day
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes -
The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell -
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer -
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann -
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
Pat Conroy -
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
Vin Scully -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Rem Koolhaas -
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck -
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Joe Murray -
I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.
Anne Donovan -
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
Dana Delany -
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
George Ayittey