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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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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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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My mom told me many times that when you are outside, you have to be careful what you are saying, and don't repeat the words of what you hear at home.
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The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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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.
