Obiageli Ezekwesili Quotes
The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.Obiageli Ezekwesili
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
Ingmar Bergman -
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Irvin Kershner -
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril -
I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
Odette Annable -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
Mahesh Babu -
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
Adam Brown -
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Cardinal Richelieu -
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
Dan Shechtman -
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi -
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
Larry Holmes
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
Carlene Carter -
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
Walt Mossberg -
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
Garry Marshall -
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco -
When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
Aaron Rodgers
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You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.
Eric Ries -
Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'
Edwin Booth -
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
Hamza Yusuf -
'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
Patrick Fischler -
I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.
Steve Earle -
The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
Obiageli Ezekwesili