Bessie Head Quotes
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I take my work seriously.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.
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Es gibt eine Menge kleiner Rücksichtslosigkeiten und Unarten, die an und für sich nichts bedeuten, aber furchtbar sind als Kennzeichen der Beschaffenheit der Seele.
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We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
