Babatunde Fashola Quotes
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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Food is a big part of my life.
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Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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I don't eat anything on an airplane.
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Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.
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I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.
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I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.
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I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.
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If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
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For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
