Folorunsho Alakija Quotes

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

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• I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Single
  • Famous

• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Dinosaur

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Things
  • Short
  • University

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Freedom

• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Popular
  • Vilifies

• In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Happy
  • Retired
  • Racing Driver

• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Person
  • Armani
  • Dolce & Gabbana

• I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Saying

• I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • University
  • Public college

• My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Parents
  • Me

• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • University
  • Badly