Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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I make music because I like making music.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.
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Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet without your clothes And everybody knows
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
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It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
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On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.
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The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.
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Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
