Wilbur Smith Quotes
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like that, especially when it comes to looks. I could get into a car crash tomorrow and disfigure my face. So I have to stay grounded.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers -
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded – like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
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My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
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We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.
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I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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I'm extremely proud. We talked this morning and everything he said he wanted this team to do, it's done. It's really amazing to see.
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
