Helen Suzman Quotes
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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I had tried my best to bring in representatives of the Indian community, but fear for the safety of their families has been a real inhibiting factor.
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The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
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There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
