Desmond Tutu Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
