Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.Olusegun Obasanjo
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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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.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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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.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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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.
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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.
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Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo
