Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.Nadine Gordimer
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Jack Nicklaus -
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis -
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman -
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride -
Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
Earl Campbell
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Malala Yousafzai -
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard -
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
Nancy Grace -
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Tammy Baldwin -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
P. D. James
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
Hannah Simone -
I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
J. R. Celski -
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Nancy Sinatra -
The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
Maggie Cheung -
A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
Gemma Chan -
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
Nicholas Sparks -
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer