Mo Ibrahim Quotes

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Mo Ibrahim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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DemocracyCountryNowAfricaAlmost

You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.

Jimmy Chin

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The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

Jimmy Fallon

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We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Joe Manchin

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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan

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My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

Sonoya Mizuno

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As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won't do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Ronnie Musgrove

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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

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Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.

Michael Korda

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It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

Ludivine Sagnier

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To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

Joshua A. Norton

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Joseph Addison

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Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?

Jose Andres

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