Oliver Tambo Quotes
It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.
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We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Football is more important to me than money right now.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
