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.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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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.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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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.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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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.
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I love a good party.
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However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!
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Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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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.
