Alvin Toffler Quotes
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
