Desmond Tutu Quotes
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
