"I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated."

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Source : "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

John Dramani Mahama

#Thinking Quotes #Progress Quotes #Saws Quotes

“That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.”
“Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.”
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine”

Source : "An Oscars Speech That Reaches Out to the Rejected and the Misunderstood" by Colette Douglas Home, www.heraldscotland.com. February 24, 2015.
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
“There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.”
“When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients”
“My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.”

Source : "Inside Ashley Benson’s Beauty Regimen and 'Ugly' Days". Interview with Gemma Wilson, www.wetpaint.com. June 3, 2010.
“When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for From Dusk Till Dawn, but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.”

Source : "Madison Davenport Talks FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES, Working with Robert Rodriguez, Delving into the Supernatural, the Titty Twister Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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