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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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
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It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.
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I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.
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A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.
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I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
