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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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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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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My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
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I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.
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Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
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I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
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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.
