Mo Ibrahim Quotes

If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.

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• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

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• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

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• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

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• We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

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• No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

  

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• Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

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• How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

  

  Margaret Fuller
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• What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

  

  Lea DeLaria
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• Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
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• We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

  

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• Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  

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• I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.

  

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• How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?

  

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• I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

  

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• One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

  

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• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

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• I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

  

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• The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

  

  John F. Kennedy

• If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
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