"We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor."

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Source : Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

Goodluck Jonathan

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there”
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature”
“We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Karl Pearson (2014). “The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences”, p.21, Cambridge University Press
“Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.”
“Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”
“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.”
“Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all”

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