Mo Ibrahim Quotes

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

Mo Ibrahim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 3, 1946

Topics

WorkSuccessDemocracyParticipation

Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

Max Greenfield

LifeGoodIdeasYouNiceSometimes

In 2012, I thought that maybe I could be an Olympic gold medalist. It just came from sitting home and being injured and watching the Olympics on the TV.

Tori Bowie

HomeGoldThoughtSittingWatching

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

GrowthScienceFeelTrueOrganized

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Mary J. Blige

TimeHouseHip-HopNothingOutside

After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

TimeMyselfInfluenceFreeBattle

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

TogetherDownBuildClassMoreTop

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Deborah Eisenberg

ArtShortYouFictionInterested

You might have a great fence, a great shoot, run, and swim, but you might get a dodgy horse. Each country supplies the horse; you get 20 minutes to warm up with it, and then you have to do the jumping course. Pentathlon's difficult because everything has to come together.

Chloe Esposito

GreatTogetherWarmHorseFenceYou

I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.

Brendan O'Carroll

WomanThinkKnowWantOldSecret

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Allen Ginsberg

AmericaSillyMoodWriteHolyYour

As I grew older, I realised that Bruce Lee was an actor first and a martial artist second. If he wasn't a convincing actor and didn't have the emotion in his eyes before delivering a kick or a punch, it wouldn't have made that much of an impact.

Tiger Shroff

EyesImpactArtistActorEmotion

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Lynn Schusterman

PerformanceImpactStudentYoungSee

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