Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • President
  • Disaster
  • Hook

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • See
  • Look

• Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Government
  • Accountability

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Race
  • Solar

• The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Ready

• What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I have patterned myself after my father and God.

  

  Adam Petty
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Doubt
  • Friendships

• Producers nowadays want item numbers. So I have penned one for this film. Cinema is the most effective way of creating awareness and spreading social message. Through this film I would like to convey the message of happiness, humanity and harmony.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Humanity

• Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Sick

• To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable contradiction.

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Freedom
  • Contradiction
  • Anarchists

• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Parents
  • Diversity

• I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

  

  Donna Leon

• After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Baby
  • Skin
  • Scar

• New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa