Mo Ibrahim Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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You never forget where you come from.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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I like routine.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
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Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
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There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
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That the opposition forces have made advancement is a mere lie. The opposition have no support among the people. If the opposition had made ... any advancement towards us ... it would have been reported in the media.
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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
