Christoffel Wiese Quotes
I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
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If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
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That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
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My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.
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I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.
