Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
The conflict between material needs and inherited, if problematic, rewards on the one hand and political legitimacy on the other, can weaken individual moral resolve. This may transform a competent and proven struggle stalwart into a common corrupt official.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
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I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.
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I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks.
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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
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For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
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There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.
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It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.
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I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
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Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.
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I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.
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I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my non-branded content.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
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I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.
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The conflict between material needs and inherited, if problematic, rewards on the one hand and political legitimacy on the other, can weaken individual moral resolve. This may transform a competent and proven struggle stalwart into a common corrupt official.
