Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes

The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

Jill Scott

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I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

Andrea McLean

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I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

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Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.

Matthew Williamson

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It was when I was shooting for a Telugu film in Hyderabad when director Meher Ramesh approached me for 'Veera Kannadiga.' I was game to explore a new language and said yes.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

DJ Khaled

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It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

DeMar DeRozan

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I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

Bryan Cranston

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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Bryan Cranston

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I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

Ashley Cole

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English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.

Alice Waters

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I don't like baggy clothes.

Playboi Carti

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