Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

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• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Lucky
  • Enormous
  • Metabolism

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • High
  • Wish

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Father
  • Loved
  • Fathers Day

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was inspired; but I know it is the first and worst symptom of lunacy. All other maniacs have lucid intervals; some are curable; but the madness of poets, dogs, and musicians, is past hope. Earth possesses no remedy, science no cure.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Hope
  • Inspired
  • Musicians

• The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own