"The only good dictator is a dead one."

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Source : George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.193, St. Martin's Press

George Ayittey

#Dictator Quotes

“I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.”
“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
“What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.”
“Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.”

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“Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.”
“I lost my temper on stage.”
“People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.”

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