Charlize Theron Quotes

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

Charlize Theron

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• Idea
• South Africans
• Sexual Identity

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Children
  • Art
  • May

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Football
  • Chance
  • Tennis

• Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Amazing
  • Cold
  • Bond

• If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Kind
  • Door
  • Talking

• It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Character
  • Fighting

• The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Me
  • Shameful
  • Disgraceful

• I have a cat named Dandelion.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Cat
  • Named

• The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Think

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Walk

• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Power
  • Together

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sun

• What! from his helpless Creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd - Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer - Oh, the sorry trade!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Gold
  • Sorry

• My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

  

  James Otis
  • Time
  • God
  • Hope

• The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • People
  • Community
  • Stop

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

  

  F. M. Powicke
  • Men
  • Mind
  • History

• I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Community
  • Idea
  • South Africans