Dambisa Moyo Quotes

A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.

Dambisa Moyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 2, 1969

Topics

GoalsFutureServiceGovernmentHelp

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Robert Grosseteste

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In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?

Anjelica Huston

FearEyesExpectationsFeelYou

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

Michael Ignatieff

FinancialSoldiersRealCostOnly

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Alvaro Uribe

WillProtectComeRegardlessWhether

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

Roxane Gay

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I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

Liya Kebede

EasyAccessibleDesignsGravitate

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

Joss Whedon

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Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.

Donnie Wahlberg

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I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

Woody Harrelson

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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Sydney Brenner

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It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

Sylvie Guillem

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