Dambisa Moyo Quotes
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.
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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
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The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.