Breyten Breytenbach Quotes
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
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Every age has its happiness and troubles.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
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I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
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When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
