Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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LeadershipWomenFoodSmallAfrica

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

Jessica Cutler

LoserYouLightsGoBarStill

There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.

Andreja Pejic

GoodWomanFashionHighWorkingWho

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

John Irving

LearningLiveTimeShoesSchoolYou

Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

Trevor Paglen

PowerInternetCloudEarthSkies

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

Tom Stoppard

ChangeChange The WorldWorldPlay

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Roger Moore

I AmViolencePovertyNeverSeems

You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

LifeTimeWomanManCaringThink

So much of the world is digital.

Michael Tubbs

WorldDigitalMuch

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Liza Minnelli

MindCelebrateThinkPlanYouDream

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

Juice Newton

MarketPopWereSuccessesBiggest

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win.

Chris Paul

WinLoseDoneMoreEverythingJust

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

Bonnie Hunt

MaturityYouCancerGainBeingWard

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