Clara Zetkin Quotes
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I want to serve the people.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless
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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
Garry Kasparov -
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
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When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
