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

• 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
  • Words

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Done
  • Book
  • Black

• Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • May

• Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Brain
  • Fake

• I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand the nice experience, but there's something about it that doesn't flow well.' Opening an app, closing it, moving to something else. There's something about the open web that's very free flowing.

  

  Ben Huh
  • People
  • Experience
  • Free

• I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

  

  John Niven
  • Children
  • Small
  • Moving

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

  

  Mo Ibrahim
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