Annie Ilonzeh Quotes

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• I love basketball.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • I Love

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Best

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Thanks
  • Genetic

• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Afraid
  • Others

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Me
  • Action

• My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Lazy

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility
  • Sweet

• When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Walking

• What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Chicago

• Nature never writes a blind hand.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Writing
  • Hands
  • Blind

• An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

  

  Frederick Delius
  • Plant
  • Guide
  • Delicate

• I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh