Atiku Abubakar Quotes
Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
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Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to.
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I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.
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It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'
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You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.
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I'm really good at not moving my legs.
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The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
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I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
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A people under the menace of war and of invasion is very easy to govern. It does not claim social reforms, it does not cavil over armaments or military equipment. It pays without haggling, it ruins itself at it, and that is excellent for the syndicates, the financiers, and the heads of industry to whom patriotic terrors open an abundant source of gain.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.
