Michael Landes Quotes

When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

Michael Landes

• Country
• Jungle
• South Africa
• Versus
• Cape

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

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• I try to stay focused.

  

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• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

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• I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.

  

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• I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

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• It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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  • World
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• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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  • Always
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• I'm a horrible golfer.

  

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  • Horrible
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• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Long
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• Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

  

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• I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

  

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • Period
  • Shade
  • Lifeless

• I feel like a leopard who has been let out of the zoo and is back on the... jungle, savanna, whatever, I'm not sure where leopards live! The lions may be chasing me, but at least I'm in my element.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Jungle
  • Zoo
  • Leopard

• When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

  

  Michael Landes
  • Country
  • Jungle
  • South Africa