Dambisa Moyo Quotes
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
