Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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Do you know freedom exists in a school bookDid you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us.
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It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. (22 August 1944)
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.
