Alan Paton Quotes
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
Karen DeCrow
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
Usher
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Aaron Koblin
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
Yair Lapid
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The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.
Jerome Powell
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton
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We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
Jesse Williams
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton
