Obiageli Ezekwesili Quotes
It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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'I'm not - the terrific guy you keep telling me about. I'm not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I'm made of rats and snails and puppy-dogs tails. I lie sometimes. I have broken people's hearts. I'm looking for love, I'll admit that, but now that it's here in abundance, I'm afraid of commitment and I want you, please, to leave me.'
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.
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There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
