Ato Essandoh famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
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What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.
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Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.
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Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."
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I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
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Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.
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Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.
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After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
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That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
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What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
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I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.
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Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.
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A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
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Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
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