Mo Ibrahim Quotes
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer -
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey -
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden -
Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
Valentina Tereshkova -
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Umberto Eco -
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I hate touchy-feely things.
Patrick Lencioni -
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.
Kate O'Mara -
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah -
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I am the odd man out in the family.
Loni Anderson
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
Leopold Kronecker -
I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
Lou Holtz -
If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.
Andy Rooney -
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
Andy Rooney -
It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.
Eleanor Farjeon -
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Gaston Bachelard
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I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
The purpose of art is delectation.
Nicolas Poussin -
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
Mo Ibrahim