Dambisa Moyo Quotes

I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

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• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  

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• Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

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• As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

  

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• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

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• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

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• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

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• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

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• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

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• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

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• I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

  

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• I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

  

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• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

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• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

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• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

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• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

  

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• I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

  

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• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

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• I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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