Kenneth Kaunda Quotes
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I love anything to do with history.
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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
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People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
