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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: June 13, 1954

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Father Man Me Think Wonderful Like

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

Music People You Lose Early See

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

Responsibility Me Law Talking Little

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

Care Ancestors Years Up Being Hunt

Thank God for Skype!

God Thank God Skype Thank

Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.

Life Women Children Perspective Men

I'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

Small Small Town Town Norway

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Book Color Serious Jazz Real Canvas

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

Face Need Nation Petroleum Reliance

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

College Behavior Anthropology Our

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Success Myself Fall Edge See I See

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Discipline World Think Seeing Place

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

People Team Understand Hard Side

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