Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

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• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

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• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

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• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

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• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

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• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

  

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• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

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• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

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• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

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• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

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• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

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• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

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• 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

  

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• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

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• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

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• Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

  

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• I'm a model, but I love to eat.

  

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• I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

  

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• Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

  

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• Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

  

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• Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

  

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• I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

  

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• Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Change