Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.
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The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
