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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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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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.
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I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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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.
