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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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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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.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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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.

  

  Maggie Grace
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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
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• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
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• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
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• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
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• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

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• PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

  

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• Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

  

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• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  

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• You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

  

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• I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.

  

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• his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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