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Breyten Breytenbach Quotes

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Breyten Breytenbach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: south african
Birth: September 16, 1939

Topics

Situation Circumstances Human Rights

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Love Day Cool Book Reading Think

Television is taking over the Internet.

Jeff Bewkes

Internet Television Over Taking

People have times when they want to go through different looks.

Amar'e Stoudemire

People Looks Go Want Through Times

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.

Stephen Kinzer

History Wrong Imperialism Seize Cost

As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.

Steve Rushin

Family Women Sports Men Fun Play

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Life Life Is A You Odds Take Bet

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Rodrigo Duterte

Leader Support People Succeed Strong

Fashion is about fantasy.

Rumaan Alam

Fashion Fantasy About

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael LeBoeuf

Time Focus Ideas Think Thought You

My mom has helped me so much. She has great style, and she's an amazing dresser.

Lourdes Leon

Great Style Amazing Me Mom She

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Dorothy L. Sayers

You Nothing Prove Only Your Outlook

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

Douglas Alexander

Change World Generation Way See