Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes
I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.Olusegun Obasanjo
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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You have to be yourself.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
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We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
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Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo
