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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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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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
