Francois Hougaard Quotes
It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
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I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.
