Patrice Motsepe Quotes
The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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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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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
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...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
