Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

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• I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Sports
  • Lose

• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Well

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Think
  • Hero
  • motivation

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • House
  • Always

• You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Prejudice

• I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Political

• Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

  

  Ian Barbour
  • Nature
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Distance