Dambisa Moyo Quotes
I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
-
Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
-
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
-
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
-
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
-
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
-
God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
-
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
-
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-
It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
-
The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.
-
'Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?''Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor.''Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.''That’d be great.'
-
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.
-
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
-
I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
