Kamisese Mara Quotes
(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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Small aim is a crime.
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So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful future of Syria to come together for national unity, for the political process. At the same time, it is a requirement for everybody to stop supporting the extremist groups, to stop allowing them safe passage, to stop allowing them to receive weapons, to stop allowing them to receive financial assistance, and to come together in actually fighting them.
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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
