Ahmed Kathrada Quotes
Not being able to see or interact with children for 20 years was possibly the most difficult thing to endure during my time on the island, there's a poetic justice that children in classrooms all over the world will now be able to visit Robben Island using this technology.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.
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You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
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Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.
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I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.
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I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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I'd like to see technology to move beyond the hype and be considered part of infrastructure... the way you see access to water. I would like it to move away from apps and mobile money. So that everyone has their TV and their Wi-Fi, and it's just ubiquitous. I think that's where we should be headed.
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The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin
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Not being able to see or interact with children for 20 years was possibly the most difficult thing to endure during my time on the island, there's a poetic justice that children in classrooms all over the world will now be able to visit Robben Island using this technology.
