Peter Abrahams Quotes
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
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Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.
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Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day -That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year - That might have sat beside me here.
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Everyday's a good day when you paint.
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In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
