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Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Dinaw Mengestu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: ethiopian
Birth: 1978

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Think Nation Genocide Policy Being

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.

Joe Perry

Reputation You Back Kind Become Out

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Joanna Lumley

Tough Fence Fall Admire First Would

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

John Bolton

Think Political You Know Need Tell

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

Angela Duckworth

Goals Quality Effort Think Matters

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

Jeff Nichols

Parent You Know Tell Like How

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Jean Kerr

Coffee Start Feel You Know Hand

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Andy Kindler

People I Can Upset Open Up Get

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

Ron Clements

Home Impact Drawing Know Old Years

When a wolf doesn't want to do something, they look really cute.

Michelle Paver

Cute Wolf Look Want Something

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Marvin Olasky

Be Strong Strong Look Person Means

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Deborah Moggach

Home History Together Sheep Museum

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

David Sze

Business Three Two Years Going Four