Kenya Quotes - Page 2

• At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

  Raila Odinga

  Korea, Years, Independence

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• Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

  Bill Gates

  Ghana, Globalization, Made

  "Bill Gates Talks to TIME About the Three Myths of Global Aid". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, time.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Men, Egypt

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• [Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Girlfriend, Mean, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The changes I envisage and that I have promised to address within my first 90 days in office are; Dismantling the cabals of tribalism that are choking our country and resulting in runaway corruption and frustration for the people of Kenya.

  Raila Odinga

  Country, Frustration, People

  Source: africanpress.wordpress.com

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• Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Fun, Topics, Sticky

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Government, Laughing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

  Raila Odinga

  Able, Radical Change, Effects

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• If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

  David Quammen

  Animal, Land, Work Out

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Ambassadors, Division, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago - I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. But not only that - we absolutely need to retake the Senate. It is imperative that we take the Senate.

  Rafael Cruz

  Chicago, Needs, Indonesia

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.

  Li Bingbing

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Animal, Zimbabwe

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.35, Creators Publishing

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• Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

  Chris Froome

  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• While visiting Kenya, former President Clinton was offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter, Chelsea, by a love struck government official. Bill said, "No way!" How does that make Hillary feel? Bill almost gave her up for one cow.

  Jay Leno

  Daughter, Government, President

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• There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Opportunity, Class

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Struggle, Son, America

  "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'". www1.rfi.fr. February 4, 2009.

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• Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.

  Kipchoge Keino

  Thinking, Best Practices, Competition

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• I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Thinking, President

  "Full transcript of BBC interview with President Barack Obama". Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Lucky, Firsts

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.

  Henry Rollins

  Way, Looks, Week

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• Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.

  Kate Bornstein

  Ocean, Men, Two

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.

  Raila Odinga

  House, Tourism, Burning

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