Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Uzodinma Iweala

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1982

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I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.

Jessica St. Clair

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Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. She wrote the playbook for it. There is no female pop star - and probably few men today, for that matter - who are not indebted to her in one way or another for her contributions to the industry.

Jeremy Scott

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I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

Jenny Slate

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I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

Michael Jackson

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I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

John Shimkus

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Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

Soledad O'Brien

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My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

Tom Stoppard

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Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Julia Sawalha

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Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.

Donald A. Wollheim

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Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Derek Bailey

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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Christiane Amanpour

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