Natalie du Toit Quotes
The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.
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I think I might get laid more...by my dad.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
