Oliver Tambo Quotes
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I get bored easily.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?
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I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.
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No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.
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250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
