Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: October 29, 1938

Topics

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I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.

Joe Perry

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I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.

Joanna Cassidy

MyselfPeopleThinkWatchI Think

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

Jeremy London

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We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

John Drinkwater

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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tony Snow

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My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

Trent Reznor

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If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

Roy Moore

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Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Jorge Ramos

TimeYouPersonSometimesTalkAsk

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

Annie Wersching

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It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

Richard Hammond

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This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Renny Harlin

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Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.

Lionel Shriver

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