Mo Ibrahim Quotes
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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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.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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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.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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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.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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I am the odd man out in the family.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
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If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.
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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.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers at all. So filmmakers had to help each other, and make very, very low-budget films. Now with the crisis, things got a bit worse, but filmmakers are still going to be making films. It didn't change that much.
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You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
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In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
