Yakubu Gowon Quotes
I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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I write very slowly.
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I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
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I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended
