Dambisa Moyo Quotes
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
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The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
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The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.
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There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.
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I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
