Omar Bongo Quotes
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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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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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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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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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
