F. W. de Klerk Quotes
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I want to be a major force.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
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At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep
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I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
