Benjamin Mkapa Quotes
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.
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The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
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The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
