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What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Government
Country
Admitted
About
Percent
Majority
Fairness
Accepted
Gets
Oil
Tax
Which
Producer
Paid
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Corruption
Givers
Outside
Most
Africa
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
God
Believe
Our
He
Put
Knew
Doing
End
Oil
Should
Means
Ground
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
Peter Akinola
Faith
Money
Will
Our
Mortgage
Altar
Salvation
Conscience
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
Peter Akinola
Faith
Our
Once
Those
Distressed
Determined
Clearly
Redefine
Provinces
Common
Unilateral
Actions
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
Peter Akinola
Faith
Rain
Church
Will
Insist
Fire
Our
Must
Insisting
Come
Continue
Upheld
Position
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
Philip Emeagwali
Me
Those
Study
Were
Subjects
Interest
Preferred
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
Philip Emeagwali
Financial
School
Out
Dropped
Schooling
Due
Years
Eight
Formal
After
Reasons
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
Philip Emeagwali
Percent
Know
Infected
American
HIV
Eighty
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali
Natural
People
Nation
Resources
Over
West
Lots
Human
Lacks
Endowed
African
Energetic
Natural Resources
Human Resources
Million
Nigeria
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
Borrow
Smarter
Than
Wheels
Reinvent
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
Philip Emeagwali
Understanding
Absolute
How
Interconnected
Requires
Program
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali
Positive
Men
Every
Out
Rate
Proportions
Developing
Reached
Infection
American
HIV
Nations
American Men
Epidemic
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
Problems
Focus
Mysteries
Important
Solve
Solving
Using
Deeper
Societal
My musical career was an accident.
Sade Adu
Accident
Musical
Career
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
Sade Adu
You
Think
Insider
Only
Outsider
Feel
Like
Been
Really
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
Sade Adu
People
Ambition
Pick
Up
Just
Aspire
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
Sade Adu
Me
People
Back
Bit
Someone
Generally
Attention
Particularly
Begging
Hold
Aware
I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
Sade Adu
Music
Training
Am
Uneducated
Technical
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Sade Adu
Me
Thanks
Live
Glamorous
Sophistication
Cliches
Version
Want
Dynasty
Little
Appeal
British
If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
Sade Adu
Good
You
Better
Every
Only
Making
Years
Album
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Sade Adu
Ways
Some
Reluctant
Am
Celebrity
The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
Sade Adu
Time
Anxiety
Nothing
Late
Feel
Like
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
Sade Adu
Music
People
Young
Solely
Kind
Almost
Categories
Liked
Fell
Identified
Were
Young People
Who
Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
Sade Adu
Down
Interviews
Bad
Snappy
Close
Just
Really
Radio
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Sade Adu
Music
You
Tour
Audience
Regain
Connection
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