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Jakaya Kikwete Quotes

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
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Birth: October 7, 1950

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Advice Giving Africa Difficulties

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Funny Humble Me Better Interesting

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

Melanie Scrofano

Easy Career Dresses Heels Share

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Opinion You Who Bigot Entertain

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

Work Inspirational Me Brave Think

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Character Empathy Sympathy Easy Hard

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

Service Country Marine Corps Active

I'm definitely more of a rockstar than anything.

More Anything Than Definitely

Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

Life Deep You Meditation Place Own

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

Ideas Research Story Say True Own

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

School Loved Literature You Vanity

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Jean Baudrillard

Money I Am You Back Go Never

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Science Looks Sometimes Out Like

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