Natalie du Toit Quotes
I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
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My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
