Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I'm not super into sports.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
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I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
