Mo Ibrahim Quotes

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

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• 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.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• 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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Different
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• 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.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
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• 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?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Always
  • 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.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Good

• The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Hate

• Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Lion

• To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

  

  Peter Bondra
  • Important
  • Game
  • Relax

• 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?

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Culture

• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  

  Epictetus

• What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.

  

  Marshawn Lynch

• We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Amazing

• It is a much-anticipated game, and it is the last one. If you think about it, I do not think you could ask for anything better than that.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Game
  • Last One
  • Much-anticipated

• I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • High
  • Pain
  • Dance

• Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Moving

• I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Moving
  • Conclusion