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 is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
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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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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
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I go to an acting class every Sunday.
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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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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.
