André Brink Quotes
Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.
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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
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I hope they do find a reason (for his death), so we don't see this again. You hear about people passing out or dehydrating or cramping. But when you hear something like this, it's not right at all.
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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
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Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.
