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Petina Gappah Quotes

On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.

Petina Gappah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: zimbabwean
Birth: 1971

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Women Men Rose Free Dream Place

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Joe Biden

You Lightning Twice United Event

I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.

Jerome Jarre

Positive Good Today Eyes Decision

I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free world during the wildly tumultuous post-9/11 realities without a modicum of help from the opposition party and the vast majority of the print and electronic media.

Andrew Breitbart

Leader World Free Think Media Help

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

Max von Sydow

Good History Think Sometimes Events

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Spencer Johnson

Purpose Parents Doctor Picture More

We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women.

Stacey Dash

Women Powerful Planet Most Creatures

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Leader Character Power Death Play

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

Robert Caro

Book Feel You Sometimes Say More

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

Ruben Blades

Looking Think Problem Latino Us

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Mike Johanns

Up Being Nebraska State Very Ended

My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.