Dambisa Moyo Quotes

I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

Dambisa Moyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

Jimmy Kimmel

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What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

Jessica Abel

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It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

Andy Richter

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I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

Michael Douglas

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Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

Steven Shainberg

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I watched a lot of 'I Love Lucy.' Then I went to college, and I didn't watch TV, really. I don't know: something happened after 'Friends' went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world.

Simon Helberg

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Pleats and polos are not sexy.

Monique Ganderton

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I'm cool with people dressing up as Eleven for Halloween. I definitely want to open my door and give them candy.

Millie Bobby Brown

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It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

Jason Day

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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

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Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

Johnny Van Zant

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Dennis Potter

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