Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

Winnie Byanyima

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 13, 1959

Topics

BusinessEngineeringEndPolitical

Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.

Jennifer Grant

ChildrenTimeMenChildBuilding

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

Jeff Buckley

LiveTimeMindAestheticYouSeeing

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

HeartTimeMomentSoulMeChance

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

Michael Tilson Thomas

TimeAmericanDoingFirstEurope

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

Jay Leno

TimePizzaPeopleFatAmericaYou

'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

LoveLove IsFavoriteMovie

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Debbie Reynolds

TravelJoyHardEntertaining

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Claudia Rankine

FightBlackMatterDeadForgetting

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

FearHateDayPeaceWake UpFeeling

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

Prince Royce

LifeMusicPassionJumpFirstWhole

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Scott Thompson

KindCancerMake

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

Tulsi Gabbard

RelationshipValuesIndiaKnowClear

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Winnie Byanyima