Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady... take your purse.'
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How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.
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It solved a real world problem: The killer idea was to make email available on the web
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
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My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
