Ibrahim Babangida Quotes
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
