"Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore."

-- George Ayittey

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Feds Quotes

“The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2000). “Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.”
“Knowledge is the death of research.”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
“I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.”
“I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.”
“I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that's the look.”

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