Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
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I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
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Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
