Atiku Abubakar Quotes
Our current constitution does indeed concentrate too much power and resources at the centre, which has impeded national development.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
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When you’re young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
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To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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Our current constitution does indeed concentrate too much power and resources at the centre, which has impeded national development.
