Bryce Courtenay Quotes
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.Bryce Courtenay
Quotes to Explore
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
Usain Bolt -
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
Carla Bruni -
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann -
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
Gary Neville -
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
Dan Gertler -
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Patrick Wilson -
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana Santana -
As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
Karen Hughes -
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria -
If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber -
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera -
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
Gavin DeGraw -
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brené Brown -
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel -
I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.
Barack Obama -
A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
Tamra Davis -
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.
Bryce Courtenay