Dambisa Moyo Quotes

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Dambisa Moyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CapitalismWishYouSometimesSay

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CharacterGreatLittle ThingsYou

I think people really want to be happy.

John Astin

HappyPeopleBe HappyThinkWant

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

John Sununu

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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

Robert Caro

LiveTrustPeopleAmericanResult

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

LeadershipFailureWomenProfessional

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.

Robert Zemeckis

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I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes.

Mira Sorvino

MusicSheAlwaysHerSongsLikes

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

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We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

Chris DeWolfe

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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

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When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

Phillip Phillips

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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

Richard O'Brien

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