Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Ibrahim Babangida

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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

John Grisham

BrainYouThreeWriteHardFour

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

Max McKeown

PeopleIdeasGoldPotentialLearn

Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn't think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.

Angie Thomas

ChanceBlackThinkRememberMatter

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Roger Daltrey

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Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

Rita Ora

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Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

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It's true that your environment influences how you write.

Mary Gaitskill

EnvironmentYouTrueWriteYourHow

I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion.

Mike Yaconelli

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And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Louise Slaughter

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I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.

Jonathan Van Ness

PeopleMeOutfitHardPrettyFull

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

Drew Carey

WarPeopleBad PeopleYouBadSin

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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