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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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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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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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.
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I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I definitely have a lot of ambition.
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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.
