Achmat Dangor Quotes
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.
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I am not honest.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
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It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.
