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.
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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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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.
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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.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
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The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
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My first husband was a serial cheater.
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Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
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If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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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.
