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?
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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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.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
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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.
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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.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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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.
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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.
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I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
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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.
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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.
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They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
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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.
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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
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As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
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New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates - if they decide that's what they want to do.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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People never confess to failure. They should.
