Alan Paton Quotes
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Quotes to Explore
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.
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If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
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I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
