Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
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[I typically start my day with] coffee and a cigarette... Smoking is terrible, to smoke a cigarette as the first thing in the day is the worst thing you can do to yourself... I want to stop smoking, I have smoked almost a pack a day, you see, since I was 16. I told my parents immediately. They always wanted me to be honest with them... my father accepted my promise not to smoke more than two or three cigarettes a day. But unfortunately it didn't quite work out.
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Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”
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We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.
