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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. -- Bill Gates
We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament. -- Shane Warne
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago. -- Louis Leakey
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. -- Wangari Maathai
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
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy. -- Rafael Cruz
There is no room for communists in Kenya. -- Mwai Kibaki
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. -- Ralph Fiennes
If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya. -- Barack Obama
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. -- Richard Leakey
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free. -- Rachel Hunter
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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten. -- Jay Leno
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like. -- Joanna Lumley
Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants. -- Richard Leakey
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. -- Louis Leakey
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans. -- Tristram Stuart
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
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A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India. -- Rosemary Mahoney
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers. -- Malala Yousafzai
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
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I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories. -- Louise Nurding
The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some. -- Raila Odinga
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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. -- Wangari Maathai
I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. -- Don Winslow
Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops. -- Sanaa Lathan
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya. -- Eric Alterman
Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. -- Jochen Zeitz
If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about. -- Raila Odinga
Kenyaâ??s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf. -- Bill Gates
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either. -- Giles Foden
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots. -- Alex Berenson
You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you've got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS. -- Pat Robertson
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago. -- Peter Diamandis
President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.' -- David Letterman
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. -- Erik Hersman
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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism. -- Raila Odinga
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
Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. -- Tom Morello
For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya. -- Barack Obama
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible. -- Alex Steffen
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
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. -- Yoweri Museveni
The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR -- Pittacus Lore
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I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. -- Ralph Fiennes
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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
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Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls. -- David Letterman
[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
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
I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue -- Chris Coons
You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend. -- Nicholas Stern
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
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
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't -- P. G. Wodehouse
David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture. -- Susan Minot
My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions. -- Eric Walters
The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama said, 'Of course. I was born - no, bored - over there. There's nothing to do in Kenya.' -- Jimmy Fallon
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
We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake. -- Jakaya Kikwete
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
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Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence these came from Kansas, not Kenya. -- Ilana Mercer
I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra. -- Mark Burnett
I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley. -- Chris Froome
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. -- Ethan Zuckerman
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
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. -- Naomie Harris
Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love. -- Sylvia Browne
I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down. -- Jennifer Egan
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
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