J. M. Coetzee Quotes
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.
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Start to think differently. The reason why the majority of people fail is that they all think the same. One of the biggest secrets of life is, do the exact polar opposite of what everybody else is doing.
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If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
