P. W. Botha Quotes
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.
