Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Quotes
But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
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In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
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We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The oldest and most important currency is debt.
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But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.
