Breyten Breytenbach Quotes
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Quotes to Explore
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.
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If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?
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My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
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When I'm content with nothing is when I'm content with everything.
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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
