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.
Talcott Parsons -
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei -
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi -
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.
Carl Sandburg -
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
Albert Einstein -
Food is a big part of my life.
Blake Griffin
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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.
James D. Watson -
I don't eat anything on an airplane.
Masaharu Morimoto -
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.
Maria Cornejo -
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.
Lynda Resnick -
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.
Mary McCormack -
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.
Kevin Whately
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude -
The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.
Billy Dee Williams -
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.
Anne Roiphe -
For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.
Lynn Nottage -
I get a lot of letters from people.
George Osborne -
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.
Eric Metaxas
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A lot of people just send me beats, and I pick the ones I like. See, once I said I was doing my album - because I know everybody and they mama - everybody just got in touch with me.
Nate Dogg -
You’re really doing well, it’s the satisfaction you get from school, it’s love,” Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.
Elena Ferrante -
I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.
Misty May-Treanor -
As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
Babatunde Fashola