Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Ibrahim Babangida

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PeoplePovertyLongForcesHostage

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Joe Lieberman

BelieveSecurityI BelieveBorders

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

Joel Edgerton

LoveFightPeopleWaitYouThree

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Jeff Koons

ArtResponsibilityMeBelieveBetter

Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup of coffee, there is no way that you can give an honest representation of your company or products. You're lying to yourself and wasting your own time as well as that of your prospect or partner.

Michael Gerber

BusinessTimeCoffeeYourselfLunch

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

John Perry Barlow

TimeInternetPoliticalDataEmpower

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

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I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

Tom Ford

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What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced.

Rose McGowan

WorkWomenAngryEmotionRightUs

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Rosemary Clooney

SayingRock And RollRememberWeek

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

Jonah Goldberg

GovernmentCollegeProblemMediaYou

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

SocietyRepetitionMeaningfulAct

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

Dinaw Mengestu

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