F. W. de Klerk Quotes
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
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I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
