Obiageli Ezekwesili Quotes
My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem – solving. She can solve any problem.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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We care about margins.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.
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My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem – solving. She can solve any problem.
