Meles Zenawi Quotes

After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization.

Meles Zenawi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: ethiopian
  • Birth: May 8, 1955 - August 20, 2012

Topics

BlackCountryCivilizationNever

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

Robert Picardo

MorningMondayThinkEndInteresting

I don't like people looking at someone else's image.

Stephen Curry

PeopleLookingSomeoneImageLike

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

DanceI AmInevitableNeverOldUp

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

Mike Myers

FatherLightSpiritualDeepQuest

Anything can happen. Everybody is working to be on that team and to win the Olympic Games.

Michelle Carter

TeamWinGamesHappenAnything

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mohnish Pabrai

PeopleFreeThinkRealityYouWant

You're supposed to be challenged in college.

Judy Blume

CollegeYouChallengedSupposed

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Josh Duhamel

YourselfStartThinkYouFallBad

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WomenPeopleFeelPartyWantWhy

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

Christopher Walken

PeopleWishBornPlaySome People

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

Brian Welch

LifeLoveGodMoneyPeopleMy Life

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

Antony Beevor

GreatWarWorldChoicesFaceMoral

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