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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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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Some things were worth the dance with danger.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
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My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
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The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
