Dambisa Moyo Quotes

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

Dambisa Moyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CriticismEndCorruptionHelpUp

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

John Hawkes

PresentCameraI CanToo MuchForget

When the Eagles were starting out in the early '70s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone in the fledgling, country-accented rock group someday seriously challenging the artistic punch of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.

Robert Hilburn

EarlyYoungSeriouslyGroupRock

You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

Matthew Lewis

HeroSchoolPeopleThinkHelpYou

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Michael C. Burgess

ChangeYearGeneticsFluOverYears

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

AdventureWorthwhileItself

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

Matt Bellamy

TimeMeSpeakDownGoSee

Religion is an irrational construct.

Michel Onfray

ReligionIrrationalConstruct

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Michelle Malkin

HealthGovernmentControlCarePlan

This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.

Jon Gruden

TimeRidiculousSpreadQuarterback

When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

Deepika Padukone

WorkCharacterTimeJusticeDoing

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

Anne Hull

FatherTimeBirdsWorldRemember

I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.

Piyush Goyal

PeopleWorldYouIndiaBurdenNow

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