Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
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We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.
