Mo Ibrahim Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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The mobile industry changed Africa.
