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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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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Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
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My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
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The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
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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.
