Omar Bongo Quotes
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
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Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
