Samora Machel Quotes
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Of course I get hurt.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
