Bernard Membe Quotes
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
