Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
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I'm not a gadget freak.
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Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
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There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.
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On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
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It blows my mind - whenever you're stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there's so many layers to everything.
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
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The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.
