Joe Slovo Quotes
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.
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You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.