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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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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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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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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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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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.
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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
