Alan Paton Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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If this just degenerates after a historic election, back into the usual bologna of politics in Washington and pettiness in Washington, then the American people I believe will move towards a third party in a massive way.
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When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
