Alan Paton Quotes
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.
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Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
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Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country's companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country's workers fit into the global economy.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Happy the eyes that can close.
