Omar Bongo Quotes
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
