William Kamkwamba Quotes
I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
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My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
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I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
