F. W. de Klerk Quotes
I'm a Christian. I'm a South African. I'm an Afrikaner. I'm a lawyer. I love my country, and I think that this country has a great future. In that sense of the word, I`m a practical idealist.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
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When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.
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I'm a Christian. I'm a South African. I'm an Afrikaner. I'm a lawyer. I love my country, and I think that this country has a great future. In that sense of the word, I`m a practical idealist.
