Alan Paton Quotes
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Alan Paton
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
Garth Brooks
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy
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If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
Carine Roitfeld
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
Frances Beinecke
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
Rachael Taylor
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern
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Artists need to express.
Bebe Neuwirth
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The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me.
Zella Day
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
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It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
Elizabeth Berg
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Alan Paton
