F. W. de Klerk Quotes

The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
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• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
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• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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  • Evil

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
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• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
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• How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Change
  • Struggle
  • Racism

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
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• I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Thing

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
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• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
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• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
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• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
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• People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.

  

  Mac Miller
  • People
  • Life
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• Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.

  

  Bohumil Hrabal
  • Joy
  • Fire
  • Human

• Being part of the fashion world, I'm definitely not a fashion victim. If the style that's going on at that moment suits me, I might integrate it slightly into my look. I'm someone with my own unique style.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Style

• We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
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• Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Virtue

• The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Power
  • Free
  • Government