"As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct."

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Source : "Interview: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi". Interview with Alex Perry, content.time.com. September 6, 2007.

Meles Zenawi

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“I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.”
“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.”
“When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"”

Source : "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.”
“Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.”
“You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.”
“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.”
“There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.”

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