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african conflicts deeply fact handful inevitably invested novel particular played politics role
The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist. Dinaw Mengestu
african equally fact
The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference. Durado Brooks
africa african based continent depriving economic equitable global liberating preventing progress promoting share
The real European-African partnership should be based on promoting development and liberating the African continent from its debts, which have been preventing economic progress and depriving Africa of its equitable share in the global economy, Amr Moussa
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There is no doubt that both regional states and Africa in whole will gain toward peace and stability in Burundi, Paul Kagame
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An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.
african performers perhaps roles south
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed. Aasif Mandvi
african based
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. Toyin Odutola
african beacon devoted express issues kids life sure
Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. Todrick Hall
africa airlines carries countries deprive fly grow isolate issues leads people safety stigma thereby
We are going to isolate countries where these safety issues are a concern. The stigma that Africa carries leads people to fly non-African airlines and thereby deprive our airlines of opportunities to grow and expand.
change heart path
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Carlos Castaneda
change china climate entire exchanges facing famine join problems promote solve states united
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
changed kid martial parents program schools teaching
We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.
change lead lucky small
We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game. Oliver Kahn
change lead level slight
We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.
change guidance plans
We have no plans to change the guidance policy.
change choice climate environmental facing putting relationship risk threat worst
We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet. Stephane Dion
changes governance magic overnight pass public situation wants
What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet. Dan Bartlett
change course matter score threat whenever
Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball. Matt Barnes
children
I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it. Carol Leifer
children environment failing
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Carol Moseley Braun
children instant bounds
Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? Carol Vorderman
children my-children
I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.
children mean waiting
If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister! Carlos Mencia
children ignorance strange
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency Carlos Fuentes
children two complaining
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
children effort matter
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
children
I never stopped doing what I did as a child. Carl Andre
energy conquer idiocy
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
energy pick whenever
Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do. Charles Thomas
energy game great guys home last regular season win
We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win. Jarret Stoll
energy needs source
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. Charlie Dent
energy gasoline good hike included leaves mark news past question three weeks
The CPI was good news but still leaves that question mark about energy prices. The gasoline hike of the past three weeks was not included in it.
energy five larger problem six themselves whose
The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long? Aaron Eckhart
energy invisible issue market prices rising tax
The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.
energy tone took
We set the tone right away and took the energy out them early.
energy felt good looking open private school spent successful time willing
We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.
families good learned lives positive rather source stuff taken
We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing. David Crosby
families half nearly struggling touch women
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California. Elizabeth Emken
families four hearts hurt last loved memory resolve whose
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day. John Doolittle
families public works
Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor. Khloe Kardashian
families lived maybe overlooked sons wondering worrying
If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof. Julia Glass
families full government help house injured line loved offering prayer praying thoughts white
We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.
families grieving loved
We're grieving for our employees, our customers, their families and their loved ones. James Lee
families family gather morning
Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night. Joseph B. Wirthlin
families further kept payment prevent workers
Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting. Payment now should be speedy to prevent further hardship. Adrian Ross
food bitter culinary
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Charles Dudley Warner
food two six
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? Charles de Gaulle
food doors smell
Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding. Charles Dickens
food
He who feasts every day, feasts no day. Charles Simmons
food
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. Tom Lehrer
food love
I love HGTV. I love the Food Network. Tim Gunn
food great perfect proper quicker searching venice water
Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.
food best-food food-safety
Italy will always have the best food. Diane von Furstenberg
food mean wind
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess. Dave Barry
knowing useless kind
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
knowing people trying
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not. Agnes Varda
knowing genius sometimes
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing understanding benefits
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. Brian Cox
knowing able kind
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. Brian Eno
knowing wish world
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. Dmitri Mendeleev
knowing done terrain
At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. David Allen
meal table
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent. Sharon Stone
meals looks care
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head. Al Pacino
meal might morning pick seen
The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning. Paul O'Grady
meals left-alone novel
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods. Anthony Trollope
meals yogurt too-much
There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal. Daniel Handler
meal pepper prepare tomato
To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying. Nell Newman
meals saint lord
Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates! Brother Lawrence
meals dull dessert
Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning. Denis Leary
meals excited my-family
I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited. Carey Mulligan
might occupation certain
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. Carl Friedrich Gauss
might majesty wild-geese
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here. C. S. Lewis
might next shock time
What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.
might narnia chechnya
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
might
We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently. John Gibbons
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
next ready weeks work
We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.
next firsts miles
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles. Alan Kulwicki
next prime
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.
next people process second telling
The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day. Michael Robinson
next moments next-time
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself. Ricky Gervais
next woman-suffrage suffrage
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. Susan B. Anthony
next creator hard
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly. Bram Cohen
next hazards moments
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. Djuna Barnes
next want havens
Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go. Dhani Jones
order perfect horror
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
order awareness well-being
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
order use world
Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.
order wind needs
... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
order darkness exhausted
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
order trying needs
Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally. Alan Sugar
order secret masonic
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell
order giving cabinets
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Charles Caleb Colton
providers step ultimately
Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.
providence mark ifs
We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes Charles Spurgeon
provides recognize turn turned vehicle
When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.
provide strongly
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. Martin Seligman
provide run
We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.
provided statements
Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.
provide services
We're being called on to provide services we don't have,
provides release released sure
If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.
provided
I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.
purchase simplify
When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.
purchase sure
Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.
purchases treasury trend
We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.
purchased quotes
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. Quintilian
purchased
We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.
purchase third
The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle. Janine Turner
purchased
I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.
purchase
That's a big purchase for us. That's great.
streets street-corners corners
I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop. Al Jarreau
streets right-road
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. Bob Marley
street
We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.
street taking
We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.
street
Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'. Billy Joel
street time yorkers
New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' Elaine Stritch
street
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. Nas
street york
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them. Dan Jenkins
street
He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.
work-out digging proof
Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof. Carl Edwards
work littles mathematical
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []
work
We have much work ahead, to stand still.
work
When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest. Chris Garza
worked
We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.
work
We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.
workout wall thinking
Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning. Aaron Tveit
work
I'm working myself to death. Alan Ladd
work
We've still got a lot of work to do. Kim Delaney