Dambisa Moyo Quotes
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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'Harry!' Boutin said. 'Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.'
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The storm had passed and the whole fen lay bathed in spent sunlight. Every stream and stretch of water among the rushes, which had been whipped and tormented by the storm, lay quiet now, reflecting the piled masses of white and silver clouds that floated like swans on the far deep pools of the sky. Every twig was strung with sparkling crystal drops, and every drop had a rainbow caught in its heart.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
