Nadine Gordimer Quotes
We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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The universe is my ashram, and every heart is my house, but I manifest only in those hearts in which all other than me ceases to live.
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Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.
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I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.
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How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
