Alan Paton Quotes
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
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I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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We should not let the enemies interfere in the Islamic countries relations including Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
