Babatunde Fashola Quotes

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

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• I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Romantic

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Healthy
  • Youth
  • Debate

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Everyone
  • Nuts
  • Be Prepared

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • American
  • Football
  • English

• To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

  

  Jim Horning
  • Learning
  • Quality
  • Program

• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Forever
  • Magic

• The door for discussions is still open. Only you can say whether it (possibilities of a grand alliance) is a closed chapter.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Door
  • Possibilities
  • Discussions

• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Power
  • Together
  • Mean

• As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Mean

• Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

  

  Babatunde Fashola
  • Mean
  • Wells
  • Please