Mangosuthu Buthelezi Quotes
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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We've always believed in our music.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
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I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
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This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.
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In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
