The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
When I was a child, fear was common to my life,a fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky. |
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago.
mmkirumira@rediff.com
Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
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The Roots of Education are bitter but the fruites are sweet
Iam not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an advocate for minority rights and freedoms in Uganda and Africa, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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