Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Never

• Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Better
  • Sorry
  • Skin

• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Play
  • Interest
  • Create

• If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Amazing
  • Always
  • Husband

• Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Question
  • Powerful

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Obstacles

• We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Obstacles
  • Investment