Winnie Byanyima Quotes

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Time
  • Personality
  • Conflict

• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Weak

• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Time
  • Money
  • Communist

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • She
  • House

• As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Giving

• That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Great
  • Team
  • Lost

• I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Think
  • Day

• I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Picture

• I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Think
  • Always
  • Last

• If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Kid

• I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

  

  Leo Howard
  • People

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Peace
  • Happiness
  • Two

• Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Up
  • Children

• Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

  

  David Stern
  • Free
  • Smart
  • Management

• By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

  

  Winnie Byanyima
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Empowering