Mo Ibrahim Quotes
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
-
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
-
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
-
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
-
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
-
Downloading songs is not good.
-
To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
-
Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.
-
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
-
I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
-
In the mornings, I use a good moisturiser and a colouring lip balm. In the evenings, though, I like to go a little glam.
-
The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!
-
Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.
-
It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
-
To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
-
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
-
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
-
We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.
-
Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.
-
I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
-
Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
-
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
-
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
