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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It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
Bobby Darin
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Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.
Aja Brown
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
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I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.
Mack McLarty
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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
