Amy Lockwood Quotes
Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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Man should be ever better than he seems.
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Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.
