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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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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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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A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
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Don't be lulled into complacency.
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I have to be honest, I don't pay as much attention to women's fashion, but being a sneaker head, I do like it when a girl can rock a nice pair of sneakers. Not every girl can do it. Every girl looks good in heels - that's a given - but not every girl can look good in fresh kicks.
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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
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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.
