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Ory Okolloh Quotes

I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions more Africans not just going online but having an amazing experience once they do. That's what drives me every single day when I get to work.

Ory Okolloh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: kenyan

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Work Experience Day Amazing Me Want

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Jesse Williams

Childhood Imagination Adolescence Big

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

Megan McCafferty

Girl Together Competition Poetry Win

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Matthew Desmond

Think Poverty You Housing Lack

I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

Steve Zahn

Wife Tour Met National Birdie Bye

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.

Tove Lo

Best People World You Sex Want

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

Tony Hale

Surprise Development Always Excited

We were going to do 'Reno 911!: New York, New York, Las Vegas,' which was like a 'Die Hard' set not in New York, but in the New York, New York casino in Las Vegas. We were really excited about being locked into the one casino and doing a bad action movie.

Robert Ben Garant

New York Action Die Doing Vegas Bad

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Martin Scorsese

Change Change The World Me World See

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

Jason Aldean

Success Live People You Play Go

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Dick York

Summer Jacket Over Chilling Middle

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.

Chris Cornell

Music Proud Face Geography Rock

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

Brantley Gilbert

Best Song You Down Country Know