Mo Ibrahim Quotes
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
Hal Sparks -
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
Barry McGuigan -
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
Patrick Chan -
I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
T. J. Miller -
Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
Olga Kurylenko
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I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
Samantha Morton -
I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.
Yuna -
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
Jackson Browne -
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
L. Ron Hubbard -
In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.
Leo Szilard -
My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time.
Kali Uchis
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I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
Claire Tomalin -
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.
David Liss -
Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.
Anderson Paak -
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
Jim Bakker -
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Philip Hammond -
Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
Liane Moriarty
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw -
I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
Ashton Kutcher -
My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
Leon Panetta -
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward -
For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
Paul Wolfowitz -
People never confess to failure. They should.
Mo Ibrahim