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George Ayittey Quotes

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: ghanaian
Birth: 1945

Topics

Hate Tyranny Governments

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Beauty World More Complex Intense

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.

Jennifer Hudson

Mom Old Years Slept Until

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.

Reality Comedy America Tragedy Take

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Change World Long Nothing Same Flux

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

Family English Been England Numerous

I actually fell in love with hip-hop before I fell in love with Jesus. I'm a fan of hip-hop, I love hip-hop. I don't even necessarily want to call myself 'Christian rapper.' You know, I don't want to put myself in that little box.

Love Myself Christian You Know Want

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

Teen Believe Deep Present Feel Seem

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

Time Try Write Joke Order Stories

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool, amazing musician. In New York, they'd be hunkered down trying to form a band. But in L.A., guys in bands were also playing with other artists, touring with other artists, and collaborating with other artists.

New York Amazing Cool Trying Down

I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.

God Age Me You Uncle Possible

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Luck Skill Twenty Eighty Percent

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Music People World Story Reality

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