Alan Paton Quotes
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.
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If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
