Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Military spouses serve, too, and it's critical we work together to ensure our country's military spouses have the jobs they need and deserve.
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You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.
