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 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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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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Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
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I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.
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When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.
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I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
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I am Brazilian, and that is not going to change, but I want to win the World Cup with Spain.
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As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
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People never confess to failure. They should.
