Helen Suzman Quotes
I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
Quotes to Explore
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.
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The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
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Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.
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I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
