Elio Di Rupo Quotes
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.
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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
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I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.
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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.
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Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
