J. M. Coetzee Quotes
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Life is like an analogy.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I wish I'd become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs - like baking - while dancing part-time, and didn't commit until I was 29.
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Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
