Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Man
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• I'm evangelical.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Evangelical

• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Batman

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

  

  John Shirley
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • World
  • Want
  • Shoes

• For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Weird

• Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Power
  • Free
  • Jesus

• The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

  

  Will Durst
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Free
  • Election
  • Union