Natalie du Toit Quotes
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
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One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
