Aminu Kano Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I'm a television junkie.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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In the event of failure to uphold international standards, the draft conclusions make it clear that measures such as asset freezes or visa bans could be taken against those responsible.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
