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.
Quotes to Explore
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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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.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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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.
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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.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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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.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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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.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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My children are my whole life.
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It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.
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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.
