Colonialist Mentality Quotes

#1. Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

George Ayittey

#2. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

William Gibson

#3. Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Douglas Coupland

#4. I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up

Groucho Marx

#5. Lots of stupid people were skinny, and yet I couldn't do this incredibly simple thing they could do with seeming ease.

Mindy Kaling

#6. If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

Dan Rice

#7. In truth, food (within reason, don't go overboard) and beverages (non-alcoholic, we need our brains sober) are encouraged- not only because they lift the mood and help the intellect to focus, but also because it is hard to feel hostile towards someone you share bread with.

Elif Shafak

#8. Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time ...

Chris Jericho

#9. The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.

Ravida Din

#10. I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Rachel Zoe

#11. I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is pert of me. And it's a big part of me.

Hoda Kotb