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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All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
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If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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Our current constitution does indeed concentrate too much power and resources at the centre, which has impeded national development.
