Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes
If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.Olusegun Obasanjo
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We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
