Jacob Zuma Quotes

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Better
  • See
  • Improvement

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• I'm not a huge fan of my work.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Fan
  • Huge

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Fight

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Done
  • Christmas
  • Everyone

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Single
  • Mistake
  • George Clooney

• As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Truth
  • You
  • Matter

• People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• El alma de todos sólo es el alma de cada uno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Society
  • Political
  • Perfect