Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses.
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
