Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Art
  • Words

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Lot

• Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Safe
  • Before
  • Stunt

• The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Up
  • Body
  • Confusion

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Forever
  • Fence

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • People
  • Hands
  • Might

• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Society
  • Negative
  • Even

• For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Me
  • English

• I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Healthy
  • Eat
  • Fish

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Men
  • Society

• I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

  

  John Mayer
  • Dirty

• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Character
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

  

  Jon Meacham

• A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

  

  George Sandys
  • Heaven
  • Stars
  • Building

• I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • People
  • Real

• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Influence

• My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa