Mkapa Quotes

#1. There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Benjamin Mkapa

#2. That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Kristin Hersh

#3. The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

Benjamin Mkapa

#4. I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.

Jeff Koons

#5. This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.

Andrea Mays

#6. Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#7. I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

Brandy Norwood

#8. It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

Wolfgang Puck

#9. I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.

Eric Lange

#10. To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#11. A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Nan Fairbrother

#12. When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

Benjamin Mkapa

#13. I have faith in nights.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

Gerard Butler