Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes
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
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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.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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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.
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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.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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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.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I'm evangelical.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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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.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Chi poco pensa, molto erra.
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My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.
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Christ said, 'The Truth shall make you free,' but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
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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
