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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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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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
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I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'
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My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
